As part of our series with the Center for Oral History at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, we heard from Rose Freitas Cambra, Walter Pu and Rhonda Loh about protecting Hawaiʻi's natural world at our national parks.
Listed as endangered in 1994, the population estimate of Lobelia oahuensis at that time was 100 to 200 plants. At the recovery project’s outset in 2019, those numbers dropped to fewer than 20 individual plants.
The Maui News On Maui, a sedge known as Cyperus prescottianus that had not been seen for more than 100 years was rediscovered along a West Maui stream bank. O