NATURE CONSERVANCY

Our vision is a world where the diversity of life thrives, and people act to conserve nature for its own sake and its ability to fulfill our needs and enrich our lives... Our goal is to bring active, protective management to representative, viable, native ecological systems and species of the Hawaiian Archipelago, and to thereby sus tain the grea test possible comple ment of native Hawaiian bio di ver sity into the future. Working with partners, threats will be abated, health of ter res trial and freshwater ecological systems will be restored and main tained, and the unique biodiversity of the islands will be carried forward as an irreplaceable asset, meeting human needs and fulfilling ecosystem functions that serve all life in the islands... Although a chapter office was opened in 1980, biodiversity planning by TNC in Hawai‘i had been active since the 1960s, when TNC-funded biological surveys led to the first acquisitions on Maui. The Hawaiian Forest Bird Campaign (1981-83) was the..