Nature Conservancy partners with Legacy Hardwoods

Pacific Business News reported on Sept. 27 that the Nature Conservancy in Hawaii has formed a unique partnership with a company that grows koa trees on the Big Island. Under Hawaiian Legacy Hardwoods’ Legacy Trees program, participants pay $60 for each tree it plants, with $20 of that going to the person’s chosen charity. In addition, the Nature Conservancy now will receive $1 for each tree, with a minimum of $50,000.

If a participant doesn’t name a charity, the $20 portion also goes to The Nature Conservancy to preserve native forests, the nonprofit said in a statement. “Over time, the loss and removal of this monarch tree, with no replanting, has diminished our koa forests and the quality of other native forests,” Suzanne Case, the conservancy’s Hawaii executive director, said in a statement. “This partnership seeks to address both of those concerns.”

Hawaiian Legacy Hardwoods also has partnerships with the Boy Scouts, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Martin and MacArthur, Hagadone Printing and others, The Nature Conservancy said.