Hana Hou / 2019
“Spend a day with the team in the field and they’ll tell you names of mountain peaks you didn’t even know had names, and excitedly stop every couple hundred feet to discuss a plant on the path. This watershed they’re working to protect is habitat for 147 rare species of plants—forty-nine of which are endangered—and there are more than two dozen plants with fewer than fifty individuals known to remain in the wild.”
Story by Kyle Ellison. Photos by Matt McDonald.
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Good News
Mauna Kahalawai is a non-profit Partner of 1% for the Planet!
MKWP and our non-profit, Malama Kahalawai, Inc., were accepted to the 1% for Planet network of over 2,900 nonprofit organizations doing great work to help the planet. This is a global network of for-profit companies that have committed to donating 1% of their proceeds to deserving non-profit organizations within the network. 1% for the Planet is enabling businesses to take a lead role in being environmental stewards and to set an example for the rest of the business community. These companies embrace the notion that the sustainability of the natural environment is fundamental to the sustainability of business.
Malama Kahalawai, Inc. can accept tax deductible donations on behalf of MKWP as a part of this program, and the business can get credit for this donation, not only through their tax credit, but through their membership in the 1% for the Planet network.
August 2010
2010 Conservation Innovation Award.
WMMWP, along with other Watershed Partnerships in the state, was awarded the 2010 Conservation Innovation Award by the Hawaii Conservation Alliance at this years Conservation Conference on Oahu.
The award was given to "the instigators or champions or a procedure that leads to significant advances to the structure or nature of environmental conservation in Hawaii."
Our watershed coordinator, Chris Brosius, accepted the award on our behalf, along with a beautiful native plant on our behalf. We are very honored to be recognized and we continue to look for new ways to further our efforts to protect our forested watersheds!