Kaua‘i High School junior varsity coach Kevin Celebrado and the JV boys soccer team braved the rains and mud to perform a service project at the Hule‘ia National Wildlife Refuge last Sunday. Led by Chadd Smith of the U.S. Fish
Kaua‘i High School junior varsity coach Kevin Celebrado and the JV boys soccer team braved the rains and mud to perform a service project at the Hule‘ia National Wildlife Refuge last Sunday.
Led by Chadd Smith of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the JV soccer boys worked to relocate beneficial sedges and plant naupaka in an effort at helping the 31 endangered species of birds that frequent the refuge.
Some of those birds include the ae‘o, or Hawaiian stilt, the ‘alae ke‘oke‘o, or the Hawaiian oot, ‘alae‘ula, or Hawaiian moorhen, the nene, or Hawaiian goose, and the koloa maoli, or Hawaiian duck.
The restoration work is intended to help these endangered birds succeed in re-establishing its populations on Kaua‘i.
This is not the first time the JV boys soccer team has worked on the refuge. Celebrado has taken other groups to do similar restoration and other work in the wetlands.
Originally scheduled for a weekend closer to the end of the Kaua‘i Interscholastic Federation soccer season, the group’s previous trips had to be postponed due to the threat of inclement weather, but finally materialized last Sunday.
