{"id":530,"date":"2013-05-28T13:35:54","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T23:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cavereserve.org\/blog\/?p=530"},"modified":"2013-05-30T10:43:17","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T20:43:17","slug":"everybodys-doing-their-part","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cavereserve.org\/blog\/?p=530","title":{"rendered":"Everybody’s Doing Their Part"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Education activities at Makauwahi Cave just keep growing. \u00a0Since the beginning of the year, twenty school and other youth groups have spent a day with us. \u00a0That\u2019s 677 young people from Kaua`i and O`ahu who have learned about ancient Hawaiians, our native biota, and conservation strategies for the future.<\/p>\n

The 2013 education program statistics are remarkable: \u00a0156 volunteer-days; local youth from age 4 to college; three or more activities going on simultaneously on a rotating basis (so everybody gets a chance to do everything). \u00a0Grove Farm has played a key role by financing school bus rentals and providing their employees and Grove Farm\u2019s \u201cAce Team Volunteers\u201d to help out. \u00a0Our own docents have done triple-duty, not only keeping the Sunday tours going and helping with all phases of site maintenance, but also providing their expert guidance at each educational station. \u00a0Students tour the cave and sift fossils, walk the nature trail and help with plant maintenance, collect data on tortoise locations and behavior, and help run the taro farm and wetland restorations, all under the watchful eye of our professional-level cadre of trained docents. \u00a0You can be one too! \u00a0And mahalo to Boy Scout Troop 133, one of the visiting groups, for providing us a new and better first-aid kit.<\/p>\n

All this positive activity hasn\u2019t gone unnoticed. \u00a0Dr. Burney recently was invited to give a talk about the cave project as part of a TEDx symposium at the National Geographic Society in Washington DC. \u00a0As you\u2019ve read in recent newsletters, this is part of a major initiative mounted by the Long Now Foundation to explore the possibilities of new technologies to bring back extinct creatures. \u00a0Only two projects worldwide were chosen as examples of futuristic rewilding efforts that have been great public successes, which might serve as a model for future initiatives to re-introduce extinct creatures brought back to life. \u00a0These were the Megafauna Foundation\u2019s efforts at about a dozen sites throughout Europe \u2013 and Makauwahi Cave Reserve. If you would like to hear what he had to say, and see his slides, go to: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PDl4S31xlbI<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Education activities at Makauwahi Cave just keep growing. \u00a0Since the beginning of the year, twenty school and other youth groups have spent a day with us. \u00a0That\u2019s 677 young people from Kaua`i and O`ahu who have learned about ancient Hawaiians, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cavereserve.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cavereserve.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cavereserve.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cavereserve.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cavereserve.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/cavereserve.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":550,"href":"http:\/\/cavereserve.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions\/550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cavereserve.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cavereserve.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cavereserve.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}