Reawakening Kaloko

May 9, 2019 9:53 AM

Volunteers resurrect a traditional fishpond on the Island of Hawai‘i, strengthening ties to their culture and land in the process.

Perched on delicate pink limbs and cloaked in black and white feathers, two Hawaiian stilts poke their beaks into the water, unaware of the outrigger canoe gliding silently across the pond behind them. A bearded man paddles while his young daughter sits near the bow beside Ruth Aloua, a native Hawaiian archaeologist and the kia‘i loko, or guardian, of this traditional fishpond known as Kaloko.

posted by poffin boffin (2 comments total)

It's so interesting to see this kind of work. It's not agricultural, it's restorative, but it's also restoring a human-enriched part of the landscape and when it's ongoing maybe "management" is not the right word for it. Anyway I'm here for the human-nature synthesis.
posted by Hypatia at 5:41 AM on May 10, 2019

oh duh "reawakening" is like right there in the headline.
posted by Hypatia at 5:42 AM on May 10, 2019