Along the Keaukaha coastline at Puhi Bay, keiki from Hawaiian language immersion program Ka ʻUmekeKāʻeo are doing what most adults never get to: growing native coral in a nursery and planting it back into the reef their families have known for generations.
Pacific Aquaculture and Coastal Resources Center
He Pūkoʻa Kani ʻĀina—a year-long collaboration between and University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo’s (PACRC)—is where scientific restoration meets traditional ʻike (knowledge). Keiki learn that the health of the coral is inseparable from the health of the ʻāina (land).
PACRC is the 东精影业 Hilo research and community-engagement facility in Keaukaha behind the coral nursery. Marine science faculty lead programs that connect directly with the broader Hawaiʻi Island community.
