Voices of Conservation
by Kaua'i Forest Bird Recovery Project and Story For All
Voices of Conservation is an oral history and interview series preserving the stories, knowledge, and experiences of people who have dedicated their lives to Kauaʻi’s native species, forests, and communities.Through conversations with kūpuna and longtime researchers, conservation practitioners, cultural practitioners, artists, and community members, the series explores how Kauaʻi’s environment has changed over time, what has been lost, what we have learned, and what gives us hope for the future.The voices of longtime conservationists provide a remarkable firsthand record of Kauaʻi’s changi
Episodes
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Julia Diegmann: The Birds We Still Have
Julia Diegmann Planner, Kauaʻi Forest Bird Recovery Project Julia, a geneticist from Germany, came to Kauaʻi when her husband got a job here, and joined the project after meetingCali. She introduces the eight remaining forest bird species, six of them found only on Kauaʻi, and explains how avian...
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Dennis Cabral: Birds, Art, and a Changing Island
Dennis Cabral Artist and Bird Lover Born in 1941 to a Portuguese plantation family, Dennis recounts how a childhood among mynas, cardinals, owls, and ʻeva folklore grew into a lifelong love of birds. He describes seeing native forest birds at Kōkeʻe, then watching them disappear, which he…
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Justin Hite: Remembering the Birds of the Alakaʻi
Justin, now Mosquito Project Coordinator with DLNR’s Division of Forestry and Wildlife and formerly KFBRP’s field supervisor (2015–2023), traces his path from a teenage birdwatcher in Berkeley to nest-searching for ʻakikiki and ʻakekeʻe on the Alakaʻi Plateau, a wet, black-water “waffle” reached…
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Lisa "Cali" Crampton: Why Kauaʻi’s Forest Birds Matter
Lisa “Cali” Crampton, Program Manager of the Kauaʻi Forest Bird Recovery Project gives the big-picture story of Kauaʻi’s forest birds: their evolution in isolation, their loss of defenses against predators and disease, and how avian malaria has become “their pandemic” as warming lets mosquitoes...
About this show
Voices of Conservation is an oral history and interview series preserving the stories, knowledge, and experiences of people who have dedicated their lives to Kauaʻi’s native species, forests, and communities.Through conversations with kūpuna and longtime researchers, conservation practitioners, cultural practitioners, artists, and community members, the series explores how Kauaʻi’s environment has changed over time, what has been lost, what we have learned, and what gives us hope for the future.The voices of longtime conservationists provide a remarkable firsthand record of Kauaʻi’s changi
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Kaua'i Forest Bird Recovery Project and Story For All