Last updated: January 29, 2025
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Project Profile: Collect Seed for Resilient Pacific Islands

NPS / Annie Little
Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
National Seed Strategy | FY23 $300,000
The National Park Service is collaborating with a range of partner organizations to coordinate native seed collection for ecosystem restoration and rare species conservation in Pacific Island parks. Seeds will be collected and curated for use in species reintroduction and conservation efforts, post-fire restoration, and to develop sustainable seed supply chains for island parks. The project will enhance the ability of the fragile island ecosystems in California and Hawaii to respond to a range of pressing threats including climate disturbances, fire, increasing aridification, complicated land use histories, and visitor impacts.
Why? Restoration of the Pacific Island ecosystem is necessary to increase the capacity of NPS managers to respond to fire, drought, and insect invasion, while providing a genetic safety net for threatened, endangered, and rare species – endemic species found nowhere else in the world.
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