Upland forests of East Hawaii and Volcano National Park are also great for birding. Trees not only produce oxygen, they supply shade, act as windbreaks and lock up the carbon thatis the main cause ...

Sischo works with some of the rarest endangered species on the planet, kāhuli — Hawaii's native ... helps keep the native trees clean and recycles nutrients in the forest.

Organizations within Hawaii will be able to submit applications to harvest trees from the forest. Applicants must be able to demonstrate they are capable — both financially and technically ...

HONOLULU — A wildfire burning in a remote Hawaii rainforest is ... Watson said an Oahu forest near the latest fire had uluhe ferns, koa trees and ohia trees before a blaze burned less than ...

Indigenous farming practices in Hawaii are guided ... is central to a food forest. On Kekona’s farm, sugar cane, papaya, coconuts, mangoes, coffee, and candle nut trees provide shade and absorb ...

Tree planting sounds great and makes for striking photo-ops of CEOs and presidents turning soil with golden shovels—and there’s compelling evidence that both new trees and existing forests can ...

Since its discovery in 2014, rapid ohia death has decimated Hawaii’s forests, killing more than 1 million ohia trees on Hawaii island alone. “We’re still losing ground,” said J.B. Friday ...

Hawaii's native tree snails, known as the "jewels of the forest," are rapidly disappearing ... it's said they were like Christmas ornaments covering the trees. Almost all of the 750 different ...