As important as conservation is for us today, the most important benefit is what it offers future generations.  If you are interested in learning more about how to protect your land, we can help.

Getting Started Conserving Your Land: Land Trust Alliance Resources

Hawaiʻi Land Trust Conservation Easement FAQs

Using the Conservation Tax Incentive

Expansion of community ownership of real estate in West Maui is one of the few solutions that promises to make homeownership more accessible and build families’ wealth. Expanding ownership of real estate at the local level can have beneficial consequences at family, community, and statewide scales – and land loss can lead to the opposite.

Read Kahālāwai Consulting LLC’s full study “ʻĀina Retention for Lahaina” to learn about the opportunities to expand community ownership of real estate to respond to the needs of Maui Komohana residents and serve as a model for future efforts throughout the pae ʻāina.

Read the study summary here.

Protecting your favorite natural place can seem like a daunting task. Some may not be acquainted with the process of pursuing protection for threatened land through a land trust. Voluntary land conservation has created beneficial solutions for private landowners, communities, and our ʻāina as a form of collaboration and healing through mālama ʻāina and aloha ʻāina.

Download the Community Guide to Hawaiʻi Land Conservation - a resource to empower communities across Hawaiʻi in protecting their special places. Hawaiʻi Land Trust developed the Community Guide in partnership with The Trust for Public Land, supported by a grant from the Harold K. L. Castle Foundation.