Green Fee Community Stewardship (muliwai): Restore wetlands, anchialine ponds, and riparian zones with community partners, for flood control, habitat improvement, and coastal resiliency

Funding to restore Hawaiʻi’s culturally significant wetlands, anchialine ponds, and riparian zones through invasive species removal, native habitat rehabilitation, waterway restoration, and regenerative food production. Each initiative strengthens community stewardship by engaging residents, students, and visitors in hands-on restoration, cultural education, and sustainable land-based practices that improve ecological resilience, water quality, biodiversity, and food security - reviving ancestral landscapes, protecting endangered ecosystems, and rebuilding enduring relationships between people and ʻāina statement in key priority geographies such as Ulopō Nui, Ka‘ehu, Hulē‘ia, Niu Valley - O‘ahu, Maunawili - Oʻahu; Palehua, Kīholo and more