We Don’t Just Restore Coral
We Restore the Entire Food Web
Ocean reforestation, restoring estuarine habitats, and loko i’a (traditional fishponds). Propagating Native limu (seaweeds) using traditional cultivation methods.
Keystone Focus
Restoring foundational habitats triggers a trophic cascade that revitalizes and restores the entire coastal ecosystem.
Ahupuaʻa Link
Our Kupuna (ancestors) built 300+ fishponds that managed freshwater, protecting shoreline and surrounding coral reefs
Coming Soon
New program content is being prepared.
Training Hawaiʻi’s Next Generation of Ocean Guardians
Training local volunteers in fish surveys, limu monitoring, and water quality testing to produce publication-quality datasets.
Program Activities
Data Impact
Standardized community data collection informing state and federal policy. Publication-quality scientific output from volunteer-led monitoring.
Indigenous Knowledge + Modern Science: The Most Effective Conservation
The most resilient conservation integrates the deep observational knowledge of Indigenous Hawaiian practitioners with peer-reviewed marine biology.
Three Pillars of Ecosystem Care
Forage Fish & Limu Propagation
traditional cultivation + modern data collection
Ahupuaʻa & Loko Iʻa Management
holistic watershed + ancestral fishpond revival
Citizen Science Rigor
"Kilokai", "standardized community data → robust scientific data sets.
The Ahupuaa
Traditional Hawaiian land system from Mauka (mountain peak) to Makai (ocean). Kānāwai — “the equal sharing of water” — was the source of all wealth. Hui Nehu makes this operational in the 21st century.