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Mālama Hāniʻo

Three projects, one purpose: restoring the fishery of Hāniʻo and protecting the ʻike, moʻolelo, loina and hana noʻeau connected to it.

Limu Studies

A hand holding native limu
Where it all began. Surveying and restoring native seaweed.

Coral Restoration

Coral fragments growing in a nursery
Growing and replanting coral at Ka Hoʻihoʻi with Kuleana Coral Restoration and DAR.

Kalaeloa Hybrid Reef Project

Kalaeloa Hybrid Reef units dressed with lei before deployment
Cultural and marine monitoring for a new living breakwater off Kalaeloa.
How we work

Science and ancestral knowledge, side by side

Every project at Hāniʻo is shaped by place-based knowledge. Our kūpuna, cultural practitioners and families who grew up on this coast work alongside marine scientists, agencies and partners like Kuleana Coral Restoration.

That partnership guides where and how we restore, what we monitor, and how we teach the next generation. The six kapu and kānāwai are the foundation for all of it.

Bring your class

Learning on the reef

Keiki and youth groups join our projects for hands-on lessons in reef ecology, coral restoration and Hawaiian resource management.

Schools & youth
Keiki at a coral restoration lesson