Care for ʻĀina Now
On a mission to build visitor stewardship, conserve our cultural and natural resources, and invest in our ʻāina to keep our community safe.
Sign our petition to demand lawmakers deviate funding to natural resource management!
Our Why
Our home is already experiencing the worst consequences of climate change, with our communities on the frontlines of fires, floods, extreme weather and coastal erosion. With escalating threats to our ecosystems, there is an immediate need to invest in environmental protection for the public safety of our communities. We must invest in natural resource protection and restoration urgently to build resilience across our ecosystems and communities for future generations.
Hawaiʻi’s ecosystems and natural and cultural resources provide over $6 billion in value to our economy each year, supporting our communities, livelihoods, and visitor industry. These vital resources and ecosystems underpin our culture, our livelihoods, and our tourism sector but we underinvest in this “green infrastructure,” by committing only 1% of our state budget each year to our environment.
We cannot wait.
The consequences of neglecting natural resource management are already here, and they are devastating. We cannot protect our people without keeping their environment healthy, and that requires significant funding to heal, restore, and protect our communities. Without immediate investment, our people continue to be at risk.
We need your help.
Care for ʻĀina Now is a coalition of Hawaiʻi residents, organizations, and community groups dedicated to supporting environmental investment for the safety of our people through State legislation.
