Program Overview
Bishop Museum Botany hosted a five week program on Lāna‘i during the 2005 summer break to increase the awareness and appreciation of high school students for biodiversity and environmental conservation, as well as land and ocean resource management from a Hawaiian cultural and scientific approach. Training included the propagation of native Hawaiian plants by a number of methods, learning basic conservation terminology and concepts and plant identification techniques, and learning the basics of soil science. On O‘ahu, the 13 interns learned collections management techniques at the Bishop Museum, developed an understanding of marine biodiversity, restoration techniques, and the importance of museum collections for environmental and cultural conservation. The inters developed skills for the quantitative and qualitative measurement of biodiversity and undertook field surveys and gathered data at several sites on Lāna‘i. The interns actively help in restoration efforts on Lāna‘i and O‘ahu.
The five week program outline can be downloaded here 
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The list of program participants can be found here.
The Lāna‘i Conservation Internship Program was funded in 2005 by the US Department of Education under the Education through Cultural & Historical Organizations (ECHO) initiative of the Office of Innovation and Improvement. ECHO provides educational enrichment to Native and non-Native children and lifelong learners. Financial and logistic support for the program was also provided by the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Forestry and Wildlife, Lāna‘i High and Elementary School, Kamehameha Schools' Extension Education Division's Enrichment Department, and Career Education and Lifelong Learning Department , Lāna‘i Institute for the Environment (LIFE), Castle and Cooke Resorts, LLC , Lāna‘i Hardware, Waikiki Aquarium, The Nature Conservancy of Hawaii, Hui Kū Maoli Ola, ‘Ahahu Mālama I Ka Lōkahi, and Bishop Museum ohana.
