Want to learn more about Hawaiʻi?
Hereʻs some awesome resources to get started!
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Online Resources
- Conservation Connections
Find conservation sites across Hawaiʻi to volunteer, intern, work, and learn - Hahai nō ka ua i ka ululāʻau – The Rain Follows the Forest
Hawaiʻi DLNR watershed plan, documentary, and PSA about where we get our freshwater. - Native Hawaiian Plants
A list of sites compiled by UH Mānoa - Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk
Check here to see if your subject is native or not and check out great photos of many native species - Hawai’i State Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Forestry & Wildlife
Resources for teachers, parents, and students - Hawai‘i State Natural Area Reserves System
Information about the Natural Area Reserves System - Mālama Hawaiʻi
A hui of over 70 organization dedicated to the care and protection of Hawaiʻi. - Hawaii Association of Watershed Partnerships (HAWP)
Find out more about the partnerships of private, state, and federal landowners working together to protect our natural resources - Mauna Kea Forest Restoration Project
High up on the slopes of Mauna Kea is a unique and fragile forest home of the palila. Restoration efforts are underway to protect this famous bird. - The Nature Conservancy
Last Stand: The Vanishing Hawaiian Forest - Bishop Museum
Hawaiʻi State Museum of Natural and Cultural History - Ka Leo o ka Uluau
A podcast to hoʻokamaʻāina or acquaint listeners to the island of Hawaiʻi. - Liko Nā Pilina
A long-term research project on Hawaiʻi Island focusing on creating hybrid plant communities to restore degraded Hawaiian lowland wet forests. - Hawaiʻi Island Ahupuaʻa Map
Colored ahupuaʻa map of the Island of Hawaii. December 1928. - Stream Maps of Hawaiʻi Island
Topographic stream maps. - Geologic Maps of the Island of Hawaiʻi
Reference Books
Check out the Hawaiʻi section of your library or local bookstore or browse online to find the following titles about native species of Hawaiʻi.
- Natural History
- Hawaiian Natural History, Ecology and Evolution
By Alan C. Ziegler
- Hawaiian Natural History, Ecology and Evolution
- Plants & Fungi
- An Identification Guide to Mushrooms of Hawai‘i
By Don E. Hemmes, Ph.D. and Dennis E. Desjardin, Ph. D.
- A Pocket Guide to Hawai‘iʻs Trees and Shrubs
By Douglas Pratt
- Hawaiian Forest Plants
By Mark Merlin
- Hawai‘iʻs Plants and Animals: Biological Sketches of Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park
By Charles P. Stone and Linda W. Pratt
- Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawai‘i
By Warren L. Wagner, Derral R. Herbst and S.H. Sohmer
- Plants and Flowers of Hawai‘i
By S.H. Sohmer and R. Gustafson
- An Identification Guide to Mushrooms of Hawai‘i
- Birds
- A Pocket Guide to Hawai‘iʻs Birds
By Douglas Pratt - The Birds of Hawai‘i and the Tropical Pacific
By Douglas Pratt, Phillip L. Bruner and Delwyn G. Berrett
- A Pocket Guide to Hawai‘iʻs Birds
- Insects
- Hawaiian Insects and their Kin
By F.G. Howarth and W.P Mull
- Hawaiian Insects and their Kin
PDF Downloads
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TMA Management Plan
TMA Weed Management Plan
Wai Magazine
How we get our freshwater Infographic
Natural History of Hawaiʻi Infographic