Fellows mentioned in this story: John Leong
From Pacific Business News:
John Leong, Julianna Rapu Leong and Matt Bauer founded Pono Pacific – Hawai‘i’s largest private natural resource conservation company – after John graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 2000.
The Leongs, both alumni of Punahou School, and Bauer later co-founded Kupu in 2007. Kupu is a nonprofit organization that educates future generations to protect and restore sensitive ecosystems and native species while creating career pathways in green industries.
Through Pono Pacific, John Leong and his team have converted 468 acres of farmland to sustainable use at The Ritz-Carlton O‘ahu, Turtle Bay, managed more than 40,000 acres of conservation land across six islands, removed 3 million pounds of invasive alien algae and have designed most of Hawai‘i’s predator-exclusion fences.
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