Nonprofit groups across Hawaiʻi Island hosted five “Get the Drift and Bag It!” beach cleanup events last week, in collaboration with the Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup.
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Fish Pono- Save our Reefs, a local public education campaign, aims to raise awareness on replenishing herbivore fish populations for healthy coral reefs.
When herbivores our reef’s lawnmowers such as uhu (parrotfishes), nenue (chubs), kala, kole, manini, other surgeonfishes and sea urchins are in low abundance, coral reefs are overgrown with seaweeds and begin to suffocate and die.