Our Mission

We empower our clients to preserve native and culturally important plants through seed conservation, using experience and science-based practices to maximize seed quality and storage life.

Our Services

We provide a variety of consulting services related to seed collection, storage, and propagation, as well as native ecosystem restoration, biodiversity, and conservation. Feel free to contact us if you have questions.

One of our main projects is the Rapid ʻŌhiʻa Death Seed Banking Initiative - learn more about how you can get involved in this collaborative community effort.

About Kalehua

Kalehua Seed Conservation Consulting was established by Dr. Marian M. Chau in 2019. Marian is the founder and Co-Chair (2016-2024) of the IUCN Seed Conservation Specialist Group, a collaboration of over 100 specialists worldwide that provides expertise to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. She is also the Head of Seed Banking for Terraformation, whose mission is to accelerate reforestation projects to address the climate crisis. For over 5 years, Marian served as the Seed Conservation Laboratory Manager at Lyon Arboretum and Research Leader for the Hawai‘i Seed Bank Partnership, and was lead author on a publication summarizing over 20 years of seed storage research in Hawai‘i…

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