We have begun to suspect that the best IUCN excursions are unscheduled and unsanctioned. Eight Aborigine "escapees" showed up at Ulupo today, joking that they had to get out of the Waikiki Convention Centerī before ʻwe lost all our color.ʻ Although Kaleo and I had nothing prepared, we found ourselves engaged with keia po'e maoli no Aukekulia in the most comfortable and meaningful of cultural exchanges. We talked story is what we did. We talked in particular about our shared, ongoing struggle with a west-knows-best version of conservation that 1) views man and nature as separate entities, and 2) gives little or no credit to indigenous care-for-our-mother stewardship. -- Kihei de Silva
