03-18-2025, 08:29 PM
Hereʻs an update from the Hakalau Forest. This is from their newsletter:
We submitted a Letter to the Editor at the Star-Advertiser and answered questions from many journalists locally and across the country. That following week we developed the SAVE OUR SEEDLINGS campaign which was launched on February 23rd. Our fundraising goal was to provide refuge support and cover at least two of the vital positions which were lost.
Here's a quote from the passionate Eric Hamren, the Nursery Manager, whose position was terminated; “I was 2 months away from being past probation, a period in which we can legally only be fired for poor performance. My reviews only show exceptionally high performance. All of that ended on Friday with no consideration to my merit.”
We have since received overwhelming support from 263 donors -mahalo nui loa to each of you. But we have one final request – a very generous donor from Oahu offered $50,000 if we could match that amount. We just need $27,795 to make that goal – please help if you can.
We submitted a Letter to the Editor at the Star-Advertiser and answered questions from many journalists locally and across the country. That following week we developed the SAVE OUR SEEDLINGS campaign which was launched on February 23rd. Our fundraising goal was to provide refuge support and cover at least two of the vital positions which were lost.
Here's a quote from the passionate Eric Hamren, the Nursery Manager, whose position was terminated; “I was 2 months away from being past probation, a period in which we can legally only be fired for poor performance. My reviews only show exceptionally high performance. All of that ended on Friday with no consideration to my merit.”
We have since received overwhelming support from 263 donors -mahalo nui loa to each of you. But we have one final request – a very generous donor from Oahu offered $50,000 if we could match that amount. We just need $27,795 to make that goal – please help if you can.
Certainty will be the death of us.