by Todd Yamashita | Nov 13, 2015 | Malama Honua Selects, Newsletter, Science, Stories of Place, Teachers, World Wide Voyage
Hōkūleʻa crewmembers take a tour of one of the most ecologically rich coastlines in the world, False Bay, which is designated a Mission Blue Hope Spot. Award winning documentary filmmaker, Craig Foster, educates the crew on the inhabitants of this ecosystem, and...
by Bryson Hoe | Nov 11, 2015 | Malama Honua Selects, Newsletter, Teachers, Video Stories, World Wide Voyage
While in Richards Bay South Africa the Hōkūleʻa crew visited iSimangaliso Wetland Park. Designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1999, the 820,400-acre park comprises diverse ecosystems that are also of great significance to the native people. As the first landfall...
by Todd Yamashita | Oct 28, 2015 | Education, Malama Honua Selects, Science, Teachers, Video Stories, World Wide Voyage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmYUUerWDXY Crewmember Dr. Ruth Gates is discovering how corals might survive ocean acidification and other threats pressuring the world’s reefs. Her visit to the Great Barrier Reef during the Mālama Honua Worldwide Voyage...
by Bryson Hoe | Oct 27, 2015 | Malama Honua Selects, Newsletter, Teachers, Video Stories, World Wide Voyage
“Here we are in Durban, South Africa, and today we went to with a Christian surf group,” said Hōkūleʻa crewmember Archie Kalepa. “Christian Surfers is an international organization who really love the water and surfing, and our group of surfers that...
by Bryson Hoe | Oct 6, 2015 | Malama Honua Selects, Newsletter, Teachers, Video Stories, World Wide Voyage
While in Bali, Indonesia, the Worldwide Voyage crew visited Kopernik, an organization looking to help impoverished communities through the use of technology. Tomo Hamakawa Director of Strategic Initiatives at Kopernik explained, “The mission of Kopernik is...
by Bryson Hoe | Sep 30, 2015 | Environment, Malama Honua Selects, Newsletter, Teachers, Video Stories, World Wide Voyage
“Reef conservation is a local marine environmental NGO. We started up in 2004 and our projects were based around education and sensitization of the Mauritian public and school children,” explained Kathy Young, Project Manager at Reef Conservation Mauritius....