Our fundraiser supports FoHI's mission to connect you to the natural and cultural history of the Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge. We are well underway with developing a 4th grade curriculum about the Refuge, with a pilot program set to launch in 2022. Each sale enrolls you in a membership with our organization, and funds our curriculum development. MAHALO!

Your shirt order grants you a Manu-o-ku membership to FoHI! Additional donations can be made through Bonfire if you would like to increase your membership level, or to further contribute to our fundraiser.

Our 2021 design by FoHI's vice chair, Ilana Nimz, features Manawai, or Pearl & Hermes Atoll. Manawai is an atoll with several small emergent islets where seabirds, seals and turtles reproduce. A population of translocated ekupu'u (Laysan Finches) was established on South East island as a back-up to Laysan Island. Fish that are uncommon in other places in Hawaii are abundant at Manawai, including the Japanese Angelfish. A resident population of spinner dolphins, naia, shelter in the atoll. Black-lipped pearl oysters were once common, but were overharvested in the 1920s to make buttons from their shells. The name Pearl and Hermes came from two whaling ships that wrecked at the atoll in the 1800s, making this area a maritime archaeology hotspot. Manawai was claimed by the Hawaiian Kingdom in 1854 by Kamehameha III.