Aurora Kagawa-Viviani Profile picture
ʻōiwi ecohydrology student | interests: plants, water, people | climate-ecology-indigenous communities | scientific methods, decolonizing methodologies
Dec 6, 2020 5 tweets 2 min read
While I'm at it... If #moversandshakas were actually all about #kamaainacomehome, there would have been a fundamentally different strategy.

An ecology analogy: Territorial era foresters in Hawaii saw the native flora as "depauperate," and subsequently introduced hundreds of species from around the world to revegetate cattle-overrun hillslopes to slow erosion. Granted, it worked for that specific purpose.

Lyon Arboretum in the back of Manoa is a hotspot of tree species we now call "invasive" including albizia
Mar 12, 2020 17 tweets 5 min read
Putting it out there to #KanakaTwitter... What is #AlohaAina and #KapuAloha in a time of #COVID19? I have some mental wanderings as I ease off raising the alarm... reality appears to be kicking in for the dismissive. (a rambling thread) 1/n #AlohaAina is remembering ʻāina and our people took care of each other in the past, through the most difficult of times, and also the present, including recently watching Kahoʻolawe burn with no human intervention because... of all the UXO. 2/n