2025 Hawaiʻi Conservation Conference

Each year the Hawaiʻi Conservation Conference brings together a diverse group of scientists, policymakers, conservation practitioners, educators, students and community members from Hawaiʻi and the Pacific. If you have registered for this event with the Hawaiʻi Conservation Conference, please join us at our exhibitor booth to talk story about Hawaiʻi’s birds, learn about Hawaiʻi Audubon Society’s goals and initiatives, and show us your creative skills by drawing your favorite bird to exhibit your avian appreciation. We hope to see you there!

When: July 22nd – 24th, 2025
Where: Hawaiʻi Convention Center, 1801 Kalākaua Ave, Honolulu, HI 96815

2025 Conference Theme: E Aʻe A Ulu, Restore and Regenerate

When we seek to restore ecosystems and species integrity, whether replanting forest or coral reef, one sign of success comes when our initial efforts lead to natural regeneration and growth without our intervention. Our actions to conserve and restore native ecosystems and the unique biocultural diversity of our islands enable the restoration of ecosystem functions and viable habitats for the native plants and animals that are the foundation of our identity and wellbeing.  

Our 2025 HCC theme echoes a chant to Hiʻiaka, the gentle younger sister of Pele, a goddess of restoration embodied by the greening of new lava flows after the fiery actions of Pele. ʻO Hiʻiaka kā ke kāula, Nāna i hele a aʻe a ulu- Hiʻiaka is indeed the seer, wherever she goes things sprout and grow. This natural edict of regeneration, he Kīhoʻihoʻi Kānāwai, reminds us that when given the opportunity, land, ocean, and people can return to health. Our actions from mountaintop to ocean depths, from agencies to local communities, from researchers to natural resource managers to educators and policy-makers, from the individual to the collective, all contribute to strengthening the life of our lands and seas, and our relationship with our places and each other. E aʻe a ulu pū — Let us restore and regenerate together! When ʻāina is restored, we are all restored.