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Stories in Hawaiʻi

Our Impact in 2025

Read about what we achieved together for nature and people in 2025.

April 12, 2026

An ʻĀkohekohe, a small gray bird marked with orange and yellow streaks and tufted feathers on its head, perches on a plant.
ʻĀkohekohe These magnificent, critically endangered birds often run across the treetops, foraging on nectar from ʻōhiʻa blossoms. © Graham Talaber

Mālama ‘āina means to care for the land. But ‘āina is more than land: ‘āina is our identity, it’s our sustenance, it’s our spirit, it’s the cultural foundation of who we are as Hawaiians.
Sam ‘Ohu Gon, Senior Scientist and Cultural Advisor, TNC, Hawai’i & Palmyra

With your support, in 2025 The Nature Conservancy in Hawaiʻi and Palmyra focused on E Hoʻokaulike ā Hoʻonuʻa Pono—Restoring Balance, Nurturing Abundance. It was a year of profound impact, from restoring native forests to strengthening relationships within our community to supporting stronger, more resilient reefs in Hawaiʻi, in Palmyra, across the Pacific and around the world. 

We invite you to reflect on what we achieved together in our latest Impact Report. Join us on a journey from upland forests to coastal communities to the remote wilderness of Palmyra Atoll. Hear from those closest to this work and celebrate what we can achieve when we act together for nature.  

READ THE 2025 IMPACT REPORT

Learn how we focused on restoring balance and nurturing abundance in 2025.  

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Stories from Our 2025 Impact Report

Here are a few highlights from 2025 showcasing how your support touches down across Hawaiʻi and Palmyra to ensure that people and nature thrive. 

View into a dense, lush tropical forest filled with ferns and moss-covered trees in Hawaii.
Waikamoi Preserve View into a dense, lush tropical forest filled with ferns and moss-covered trees in Hawaii. © Zach Pezzillo

You’re Revitalizing Native Forests

Across 84,000 acres on 13 TNC preserves and 18 managed areas, we restore and steward thriving native forest—some of the last in Hawaiʻi. With your support, we care for these remarkable places to safeguard globally unique birds and plants that are woven into Hawaiian culture and essential to forest health. 

Several people stand together for a group photo at the signing of Hawaiʻi’s Green Fee.
Hawaiʻi’s Green Fee TNC is a part of the Care for ʻĀina Now coalition, which helped secure the historic passage of the Green Fee (Act 96). © Office of the Governor

You’re Helping Raise Millions for Hawaiʻi’s Natural Resources

TNC is a part of the Care for ʻĀina Now coalition, which helped secure the historic passage of the Green Fee (Act 96). With a 0.75% tax increase on lodging, the Green Fee will raise approximately $100 million each year for the State of Hawaiʻi.

A male sihek (Guam kingfisher) sits on a branch at Palymra Atoll.
Hinanao A male sihek (Guam kingfisher) at Palymra Atoll. © Jonny Shepherd

You’re Saving Endangered Species

In August 2024, we worked closely with the Sihek Recovery Project team to translocate nine critically endangered, extinct-in-the-wild sihek chicks to Palmyra Atoll.

Ulalia Woodside Lee, Executive Director, and Brett MacNaughton, Board Chair, stand together in a forest.
© Sean Marrs

Mahalo nui for standing with us.

Executive Director Ulalia Woodside Lee and Board Chair Brett MacNaughton offer their thanks to the donors, partners, staff and volunteers whose dedication fuels this work.

Make a Difference in Hawaiʻi and Palmyra 

From mauka to makai, The Nature Conservancy works with people like you to protect Hawaii’s spectacular diversity of life. We invite you to join the effort. Together, we can care for the plants and animals we share this world with, so we can all thrive—together.

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