Hawai‘i in Focus: Navigating Pathways in Global Biocultural Leadership

Chang, Ki-Ho; Winter, Kāwika B.; Lincoln, Noa Kekuewa

doi:10.3390/su11010283

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“…Biocultural approaches to forest restoration can not only increase the potential for continued interactions between communities and forests, but, as described by Chang et al (2019), they can create pathways for feedback loops within social-ecological systems, e.g., the knowledge transfer from elder to grandchild, that drive sociocultural investment in biodiversity protection at in intergeneration scale. Such feedback loops create a lens through which local communities can come to see value in rare endemic species that would otherwise have no immediately perceived value.…”

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“…The reciprocal relationships between humanity and nature are at the foundation of social-ecological system theory and the concept of social-ecological resilience (Berkes et al 2003, Winter et al 2018a. These relationships are of growing interest to resource managers because it is now widely accepted that community interaction and support can be critical to the success of conservation and restoration projects (Higgs 2003, Chazdon 2008, Chang et al 2019. Recognizing that the biophysical and sociocultural components of an ecosystem are interdependent parts of a whole, biocultural conservation approaches aim to conserve both (Maffi andWoodley 2010, Gavin et al 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Recognizing that the biophysical and sociocultural components of an ecosystem are interdependent parts of a whole, biocultural conservation approaches aim to conserve both (Maffi andWoodley 2010, Gavin et al 2015). Biocultural restoration is one approach to forest restoration that acknowledges and builds on reciprocal relationships between humans and nature, and allows for contemporary and/or historical relationships between local communities and place to guide restoration design and practices, including species selection (Kimmerer 2013, Kurashima et al 2017, Chang et al 2019. The active restoration of species, species assemblages, and places of cultural value can not only rehabilitate degraded landscapes, but can also support the renewal and strengthening of cultural practice and identity, including revival of language, and connections of people to place and to each other, all of which can be critical to fostering social-ecological system resilience (Kurashima et al 2017, Pascua et al 2017, Bremer et al 2018, Winter et al 2018a.…”

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“…In spite of the recognized value of biocultural approaches to restoration (Chang et al 2019), broadscale application has yet to be adopted. There are likely several reasons why biocultural approaches in restoration are rarely considered and/or implemented.…”

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“…Hawaiʻi provides an ideal place to address this question because of the emphasis of many natural resource management organizations on ecological restoration (Price and Toonen 2017), and the growing recognition that successful restoration projects often depend on engaging local communities, and that biocultural approaches to restoration can play a critical role in community resilience (Kurashima et al 2017, Winter and Lucas 2017, Chang et al 2019. Like other islands, the biota of the Hawaiian archipelago supports very high levels of endemism, and faces enormous conservation threats (Glen et al 2013, Kueffer andKinney 2017).…”

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Biocultural restoration in Hawaiʻi also achieves core conservation goals

Winter¹,

Ticktin²,

Quazi³

2020

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Biocultural approaches to restoration have demonstrated multiple benefits for human communities, but the ecological benefits and trade-offs involved have received little attention. Using a case study from Hawaiʻi, we examined if forest restoration aimed at reviving and maintaining cultural interactions with the forest is compatible with other priority conservation metrics. We identified species of high biocultural value for an Indigenous (Native Hawaiian) community, and then tested if these species also have high conservation value in terms of their biogeographic origin, ability to support native wildlife, and ability to persist independently within the restored context. Additionally, we tested if an assemblage of species with high biocultural value can also support high functional trait diversity. We found bioculturally important species to have high conservation values for all metrics tested, except for the ability to conserve rare or endangered endemic species. However, a broader application of biocultural conservation, such as the revival of the "sacred forest" concept, can address this priority as part of a mosaic of different species assemblages and levels of access. We also found that biocultural value may, at least in part, be a function of coevolutionary time: the length of time over which a community has interacted with a given species. Given that forests are invaluable to many Indigenous communities and, given the existential threats many of these communities currently face, we suggest that forests containing species assemblages of high biocultural value, such as those in Hawaiʻi, be considered as critical cultural habitat.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Restoration of an Indigenous aquaculture system can increase reef fish density and fisheries harvest in Hawai‘i

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Madin,

Stokes

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While aquaculture is increasingly considered a globally important source of protein, growing fish for human consumption is not new. Indigenous aquaculture systems, such as loko i‘a (fishponds), were successfully implemented in ancient Hawai‘i and represent a technological advancement designed to sustain a growing human population while maintaining—instead of supplanting—natural ecosystem function in the process of increasing food availability. Biocultural restoration efforts in Hawai‘i, aimed at revitalizing Indigenous stewardship, have included restoration of loko i‘a to sustainably increase the availability of local seafood. While it is clear from historical accounts that loko i‘a can augment fish within estuaries, their role as a nursery ground that supplements surrounding fish populations and fisheries harvest (i.e., providing spillover) remains unstudied in the current literature. This study aimed to test the extent to which loko i‘a restoration can supplement fish populations and fisheries harvest both inside the loko i‘a and in the surrounding waters. A food web model was constructed representing nutrients, phytoplankton, fish, and fisheries in three distinct habitats. The model, set in Kāne‘ohe Bay, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i, revealed that there were interactive effects of the area under loko i‘a management, bay fishing effort, and fish dispersal rates on fish density and fisheries harvest. We found that increasing the area under loko i‘a management not only increased loko i‘a fish density and fisheries harvest but also created the potential to supplement bay fish populations and fisheries harvest under certain scenarios. We also identified a trade‐off whereby at high fish dispersal rates, a larger area under loko i‘a management provided maximal benefits to the bay fish population and fisheries harvest, while at low fish dispersal rates, a smaller area under loko i‘a management was more beneficial to bay fish populations and harvest. As expected, loko i‘a also created a surplus of fish within the pond. Our results support the idea that restoration of Indigenous aquaculture systems can positively impact conservation efforts and food security by increasing local fish availability, through both direct production and supplementation of surrounding fish stocks.

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