ANNUAL HAWAIIAN BLESSING AND WORKDAY TO MARK BEGINNING OF KAUA‘I FOREST BIRD FIELD SEASON
The Kaua’i Forest Bird Recovery Project (KFBRP) is holding its annual Hawaiian blessing and workday for the 2019 field season. A volunteer workday hosted by Koke‘e Resource Conservation Program (KRCP) is to follow immediately after the blessing to remove invasive weeds from the Pōhaku Hula Site adopted by the KaImi Naauao o Hawai’i Nei Institute.
Information about how interested organizations can adopt their own site will be available at the workday.
What: Blessing and volunteer work day
When: Friday, March 1, 2019 at 8:30 a.m.
Where: Participants should meet at Kanaloahulululu Meadow in Koke‘e and caravan to the Pōhaku Hula Site. The event is open to everyone. Volunteers should wear long pants, long sleeves, and shoes, and bring lunch, drinking water, small yard cleaning tools and a rain coat.
In light of the recent discovery of Rapid ‘Ōhi‘a Death on Kaua’i, participants are asked to clean all boots and equipment before coming up to Kōke`e.
Who: Kumu and Hanauma of the KaImi Naauao o Hawai’i Nei Institute and staff and volunteers from KFBRP, KRCP, and the Kaua’i Invasive Species Committee (KISC) will gather to bless the upcoming field season with songs and dances to invoke the protection and good will of the gods and the elders for native forest birds and their habitat on the Garden Island.
