This project presents sponsors with a unique opportunity to support traditional cultures while enhancing the ecological and economic viability of land use systems.

There are many questions that farmers, ranchers, landscapers, and landholders must have answered in order to bring native and traditional tree species back into active use. The Species Profiles will be unprecedented in the practical, user-friendly, and readily accessible information they provide to answer this need.

Community benefits

• Perpetuating ecologically and culturally vital tree species
  
• Facilitating the cultural and economic uses of traditional and native trees
  
• Strengthening sustainable development and economic diversification
  
• Fostering the use of locally appropriate, time-tested tree species (as opposed to unproven and potentially invasive exotics)
  
• Empowering readers to successfully re-establish local tree favorites
  

Benefits of co-sponsoring

This educational publication will generate more community goodwill for the sponsor throughout the Pacific Islands and expand the sponsor’s ongoing educational activities. Sponsorship benefits include (minimum $16,000 contribution):

• High-visibility acknowledgment on all educational materials produced
  
• Wide exposure in print, CD, e-mail and internet
  
• Demonstration of sponsoring organizations’ ongoing commitment to culturally and environmentally sensitive development
  
• Access to post educational materials produced on sponsor’s web site
  

Note: Smaller contributions (less than $16,000) are also welcome. If a smaller contribution is made, proportional benefits will apply.

Please contact the project coordinator for more information:

Craig Elevitch
Director
Permanent Agriculture Resources
P.O. Box 428
Holualoa, HI 96725 USA
Tel: 808-324-4427; Fax: 808-324-4129
Email: tradtree@agroforestry.net

Species Profiles for Pacific Island Agroforestry are distributed by agroforestry.net with support from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Western Region Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (WSARE) Program; SPC/GTZ Pacific-German Regional Forestry Project; USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (USDA NRCS); State of Hawai‘i Department of Land & Natural Resources Division of Forestry & Wildlife; USDA Forest Service Forest Lands Enhancement Program; Kaulunani, an Urban Forestry Program of the Hawai'i DLNR Division of Forestry & Wildlife and the USDA Forest Service; and Muriel and Kent Lighter.

Opportunities for sponsors are still available