#plant extinction prevention program
DLNR: Critically rare native plant on Kahoʻolawe finds success in cultivation
Native Hawaiians have tended a relationship with the critically endangered native Hawaiian plant—Ka Palupalu o Kanaloa (Kanaloa kahoolawensis)— for over a thousand years. Now the rest of the world can experience and learn about it online at a new website dedicated to telling its story of resilience.
New plant species unique to Hawaiʻi discovered in remote West Maui forest
A unique plant first seen in the high forests of West Maui in 2020 has now been officially recognized as a new Hawaiian species. The plant, now named Clermontia hanaulaensis, was found during routine surveys by botanist Hank Oppenheimer of the Plant Extinction Prevention Program, a partnership with DLNR and the University of Hawai‘i.
Crews collaborate to keep rare Native Hawaiian plant wild
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.
UH: Propagation saves rare endangered species from extinction in Hawaiʻi
A species of plant declared extinct in the wild on Kahoʻolawe in 2015, has found new life thanks to seeds collected and propagated by experts at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
