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In this approximately five and a half-minute video we climb up into the upper Waianae Mountains with Kapua Kawelo and hear her story of how her passion and love of nature turned into becoming a Resource Manager for the U.S. Army Garrison Hawaiʻi’s Oahu Army Natural Resource Program. She explains how she helped the last five remaining Hāhā (Cyanea superba) plants on Oahu bounce back by tipping the balance, restoring the habitat, and moving a small portion of the offspring to higher elevations outside of the historical range where these species had once lived. In this wetter and cooler habitat, the plants are fulfilling their life cycle. This is an amazing example of navigating change with innovative strategies, persistence,...
These appendices include an annotated agenda, a list of climate resources, a curriculum map, and results from an evaluation of the forum.
In this six-minute video, Sierra McDaniel introduces viewers to Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park Rare Plant Recovery tactics and the threats that these highly endangered species face. However, she speaks of their “Holding the Line” strategies and how important science-based decisions and climate change models have influenced their management efforts to preserve and protect their valuable natural and cultural resources within the park. Through strong partnerships and taking risks, Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park is not waiting to see what the future holds, rather they are leading by example and building resiliency now!
Climate change poses significant challenges to food production, natural resources management, and public health. Initiatives like ‘Climate-Smart Agriculture” (e.g., FAO, UNDP) and the growing field of ‘Climate Services’ are emerging globally to provide stakeholders (producers, managers, communities) with better climate-related information and solutions to cope with increasing climate variability. The long-term relationships and diverse professional networks cultivated by Cooperative Extension faculty places them in a unique and critical position to help clients and stakeholders sustain and improve food security, ecosystem services, and local health and livelihoods in the face of climate change. The intent of the...
Micronesia’s island shorelines are threatened by multiple stressors including climate change impacts such as rising seas and changing storm patterns; as well as local disturbances like dredging, construction and mangroves overharvesting. There is a pressing need to increase the long-term resilience and adaptive capacity of Micronesia’s mangrove resources. This project intends to create an island-wide mangrove adaptation and management plan based on the compilation and application of multiple ongoing efforts connected to mangrove conservation in Pohnpei. The two main objectives are to: (1) Develop a consensus-based island-wide mangrove adaptation and management plan. The outcome of this objective is the adoption...
In this five-minute video Eric Vanderwerf tells the heroic story of Pacific Rim Conservation creating new nesting colonies for Black-footed and Laysan Albatross at James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge on Oahu. Sea level rise and extreme weather events will threaten the survival of their nests all throughout the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. This translocation effort to higher islands and choosing locations that are predator free will hopefully be the beginning of conservation actions that will help preserve these magnificent birds. We hope you are inspired by these efforts and we need your help amplifying this story and inspiring the next generation to get involved. This project shares an example of how we can...
Cooperative Extension agents and specialists in the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (CTAHR) at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM) are in a critical position to improve food security, ecosystem services, and local livelihoods in the face of climate change due to their expertise and client-based relationships. However, there has been little systematic effort to increase the knowledge of climate science or climate change mitigation and adaptation among Cooperative Extension faculty in the Pacific region. The Hawaii Extension Climate Forum was designed to engage Cooperative Extension faculty in critical dialogue about the impacts of climate change on agriculture and natural resources in Hawaii....
The Pacific Island Climate Change Cooperative (PICCC) Climate Change Adaptation Video Series are a series of video created in close coordination with the PICCC profiling case studies of climate change adaptation as conducted by conservationists in Hawaiʻi. The videos are necessary in order to help educate, inform, and inspire the general public, peers, and potential conservation managers. The goals and objectives of the videos are to be engaging, exciting, and candid.
In this approximately six and a half-minute video Woody Mallinson, the Natural Resources Manager for Haleakalā National Park, and others discuss working with partners to replant Haleakalā’s iconic species, the silversword. With climate projections indicating warmer and drier conditions, the team is strategically using climate models to identify locations that have a wide range of rainfall, increased elevations, and hopefully conditions that will allow these plants to survive in future conditions. The National Park used a collaborative process to apply the climate science to their decision making process. There are no guarantees that it will work, however scientists like Paul Krushelnycky from the University of Hawai‘i...
Coral reef managers currently face the challenge of mitigating global stressors by enhancing local ecological resilience in a changing climate. Effective herbivore management is one tool that managers can use in order to maintain resilience in the midst of severe and frequent bleaching events. One recommended approach is to establish networks of herbivore management areas (HMAs), which prohibit the take of herbivorous reef fishes. However, there is a need to develop design principles to guide planning and implementation of these HMAs as a resilience-building tool. We refine available guidance from fully protected marine protected area (MPA) networksand developed a set of 11 biophysical design principles specifically...
This workshop will build capacity within the Cooperative Extension Service (CES) in the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (CTAHR-UHM) to effectively incorporate climate science and climate-related information into CES programs and identify locally relevant strategies for climate adaptation. This effort will expand the work and impact of the Pacific Island Agroforesty Adaptation Initiative (PIAAI), a partnership between PICCC and College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (CTAHR-UHM), currently focused on the Territories of Guam and American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. The Hawaii-focused...
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The PICCC collaborated with Hawaiʻi-based video production team, Orig Media, to create a series of short video case studies featuring climate change adaptation plans, projects and activities being conducted by conservationists in Hawaiʻi. These candid, engaging videos are intended to inform and inspire the general public, youths and potential conservation managers.
Coral reef ecosystems in Hawaii have suffered high rates of mortality following the recent mass bleaching event. In order to prevent phase shifts to degraded reefs, strategies to increase reef resilience following disturbance such as bleaching must be developed. Herbivore management has been identified as a priority management action to increase reef resilience, and the goals of this project were to 1) synthesize climate and herbivore management spatial data layers and 2) utilize Marxan to identify prioritized areas for herbivore management in west Hawaii and Maui Nui.1. The project team synthesized relevant climate and herbivore management spatial data layers from seven sources, and incorporated feedback from four...
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