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Kawika B. Winter

is a multidisciplinary ecologist who has focused his professional career and research on supporting and studying large-scale biocultural restoration of social-ecological systems in Hawaiʻi. He is also active in the policy sphere in the realms of conservation, sustainability and Indigenous rights.
https://manoa.hawaii.edu/biocultural/kawika-winter/
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The Fight Against Extinction Requires Biocultural Restoration

The combined extinctions of Hawai‘i’s biodiversity and elements of Hawaiian culture represent the great unravelling of an eco-civilization.
October 11, 2021
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Kawika B. Winter
The combined extinctions of Hawai‘i’s biodiversity and elements of Hawaiian culture represent the great unravelling of an eco-civilization.

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