The National Park Service requested The Conservation Fund’s assistance in acquiring the 3,900 acre Nu’u Ranch within Haleakala National Park on Maui, the largest undeveloped parcel in private ownership in the park. The property has almost a mile of frontage on the Pacific Ocean and rises over 6,000 feet to the rim of the Haleakala Crater.
Significant portions of the property are also within the Kahikunui Forest Reserve with remnants of the biologically diverse koa forest ecosystem that once dominated the island providing critical habitat for the rare po’ouli bird and Maui parrotbill. Lower elevations have intact, dry wiliwili forests, habitat for the endangered Blackburn’s sphinx moth and Hawaiian hoary bat. Now protected, the property also has three recorded ancient Hawaiian temples, also called heiau.
Alaska & Hawaii
In order to safeguard this fragile region, The Conservation Fund, working in partnership with the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Native corporations, and others launched the Southwest Alaska Salmon Habitat Initiative – a 10-year, multi-million dollar program to protect wild salmon and their habitat.
From government agencies to corporations, from private landowners to land trusts and local communities, the Fund's partners seek our expertise to:
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