Preserve Hawaiʻi

Volunteers at Pouhala Marsh

Below are links to over 60 organizations with short-term environmental opportunities for volunteers like you!

Hawaiʻi Island (Big Island)
- Amy Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden
- Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge
- Friends of Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge
- Hawaiʻi Hawksbill Turtle Recovery Project
- Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park: Vegetation Program
- Hawaiʻi Wildlife Center (HWC volunteer projects on hold till facility is complete)
- Hawaiʻi Wildlife Fund—Hawaiʻi Island
- The Kohala Center: ReefTeachers
– Mokupapapa Discovery Center
- Na Ala Hele—Hawaiʻi Island
- School Gardens Network
Featured: Malaʻai (The Culinary Garden of Waimea Middle School)
- Sierra Club—Moku Loa (Hawaiʻi Island)
- Three Ring Ranch Exotic Animal Sanctuary

Kauaʻi
- Friends of Kamalani and Lydgate Park
- Hanalei Watershed Hui
- Hawaiian Monk Seal Conservation Hui (see sample listing)
- Hui o Laka: Kokeʻe Natural History Museum
- Kokeʻe Resource Conservation Program
- National Tropical Botanical Garden
- Sierra Club—Kauaʻi
- Surfrider Foundation—Kauaʻi
- Waipa Foundation

Maui
- Community Work Day Program
- East Maui Animal Refuge (a.k.a. The Boo Boo Zoo)
- Haleakala National Park
- Friends of Haleakala National Park
- Hawaiʻi Nature Center—Maui
- Hawaiʻi Wildlife Fund—Maui
- Honokohau Valley Project (no website / see sample listing)
- Kealia Pond National Wildlife Refuge
– Kipahulu ʻOhana: Kapahu Living Farm
- Maui Coastal Land Trust: Waiheʻe Coastal Dunes and Wetlands Refuge
- Maui Cultural Lands: Projects Malama Honokowai and Malama Hanaula
- Maui Nui Botanical Gardens
- Maui Restoration Group
– Na Ala Hele—Maui
- Native Hawaiian Plant Society
- Pacific Whale Foundation
- REEF (Reef Environmental Education Foundation)
- Project S.E.A.-Link
- FIN (Fish Identification Network)
- Surfrider Foundation—Maui

Molokaʻi
- Ka Honua Momona

Oʻahu
- ʻAhahui Malama i ka Lokahi
- ʻAINA In Schools
- Clean Water Honolulu
- Friends of Hanauma Bay
- Hawaiian Monk Seal Response Team Oʻahu
- Hawaii Audubon Society
- Hawaiʻi Nature Center—Oʻahu
- Honolulu Zoo Society
- Hoʻoulu ʻAina: Kalihi Valley Nature Park
- Hui o Ko’olaupoko
- ʻIhiʻihi Protection Team
- KAUPA—Kalihi Ahupuaʻa Ulu Pono Ahahui
- Lyon Arboretum
- Malama Na Honu
- Manoa Cliff Trail Project
- Na Ala Hele—Oʻahu
- Nani ʻO Waiʻanae
- Oʻahu Invasive Species Committee
- Sierra Club—Oʻahu
– Surfrider Foundation—Oʻahu
- Wild Dolphin Foundation

Multi-Island
- Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary
- National Tropical Botanical Garden
- The Outdoor Circle
- Reef Check Hawaiʻi
- Sierra Club—Hawaiʻi Service Trip Program

Farm Apprenticeships
- HOFA
- WWOOF

(For a full description of the above projects, hardiness level, time commitment, advance notice, and to read volunteer stories from the field, check out Preserving Paradise, the book)

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