Volunteer
Information
Volunteers
are encouraged to call for more information.
A love for
Hawaii
’s native ecosystems is a must for volunteers.
Additionally, volunteers should be comfortable
with working with people, contacts in the Native
Hawaiian community, or agencies.
A knowledge of Hawaiian natural history is also
preferred. Please
call or email for the most current opportunities.
Additional
Information
The
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is a bureau within the
Department of the Interior.
Our mission is working with others to conserve,
protect and enhance fish, wildlife, and plants and their
habitats for the continuing benefit of the American
people.
Although a relative newcomer to the Department of
the Interior, the Fish and Wildlife Service’s programs
are among the oldest in the world dedicated to natural
resource conservation.
The
Service manages the 90 million acre National Wildlife
Refuge System of more then 520 National Wildlife
Refugees and thousands of small wetlands and other
special management areas.
In
Hawaii
, ten refuges are located on the islands of
Hawaii
, Maui,
Molokai
, O’ahu, and Kaua'i.
Refuges in Guam,
Palmyra
, Midway, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, Kingman Reef,
Johnston Rose, Howland, Jarvis, and
Baker
Islands
are also managed by the Pacific Islands Ecoregion in
Honolulu
.
Among
its key functions, the Service enforces Federal wildlife
laws, protects endangered species, manages migratory
birds, resorts nationally significant fisheries,
conserves and restores wildlife habitat such as
wetlands, and helps foreign governments with their
international conservation efforts.
It also oversees the Federal Aid program that
distributes hundreds of millions of dollars in excise
taxes on fishing and hunting equipment to State fish and
wildlife agencies
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