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Wide shot of Hilo facing Mauna Kea in the background.2. Pan down in a forest in Hawaii's Volcanoes National Park showing how it is infested by...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003eHawaii Volcanoes National Park, Big Island, Hawaii - September 4th, 2008\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide shot of Hilo facing Mauna Kea in the background.\u003cbr/\u003e2. Pan down in a forest in Hawaii's Volcanoes National Park showing how it is infested by invasive ginger.\u003cbr/\u003e3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Kristin McGrath, Senior Director of Marketing, Big Island Visitor's Bureau\u003cbr/\u003e\"Birds and animal species really developed here without outside influences, without people, without predators and so we have this tremendous diversity of species and types of animals and plants and so we really want to protect that. And an invasive species, for example, at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, can come in and disturb the land for the native plants and that's important because the native birds are adapted to the native plants and it upsets the entire environment and so we love that our visitors can come and it's really fun to get in and pull the ginger. Actually it's a very beautiful plant.\"\u003cbr/\u003e4. Pull focus of invasive Kahali ginger\u003cbr/\u003e5. Tilt up flower of the invasive ginger.\u003cbr/\u003e6. Pan of tourist removing invasive ginger from forest and taking it across the road.  UPSOUND (English): \"That's work!\"\u003cbr/\u003e7. Tourists pulling out ginger in the forest.\u003cbr/\u003e8. Pan top to bottom of a section that has been cleared but where the native vegetation hasn't regrown yet.\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Danny Almonte, Hawaii Forest and Trail Guide:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Plants in Hawaii are very non competitive and so they lose the battle and the only way to help them out is by man intervening and become stewards.\"\u003cbr/\u003e10. Close of tourist removing ginger by pulling it out of the ground.\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE (English) Joey Pace, Tourist: \u003cbr/\u003e\"Oh it was very interesting. We learned a lot, we got to see a lot, then to help out with the park that was really great.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eKahalu'u Bay, Kona, Big Island, Hawaii - September 6th, 2008\u003cbr/\u003e12. Wide Kahalu'u Bay, Kona, Big Island, Hawaii.\u003cbr/\u003e13. Setup shot  Mr. Matthews M. Hamabata, Executive Director, The Kohala Centre\u003cbr/\u003e14. Shot of large turtles near shore at Kahalu'u Bay.\u003cbr/\u003e15. Tourists at Kahalu'u Bay.\u003cbr/\u003e16. SOUNDBITE: (English) Matthews M. Hamabata, Executive Director, The Kohala Centre:\u003cbr/\u003e\"With Westernisation and with colonisation I think we as island people really became disconnected from native protocols, native culture, what made us Hawaiian.\"\u003cbr/\u003e17. Reef Teach staff setting up their booth at Kahalu'u Bay.\u003cbr/\u003e18. Reef Teach volunteer in the water approaching tourists.\u003cbr/\u003e19. SOUNDBITE: (English) Matthews M. Hamabata, Executive Director, The Kohala Centre:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Without the work of the community, without the support of over three dozen businesses, without the support of our local government this bay could be trampled to death.\"\u003cbr/\u003e20. Tourists in the water.\u003cbr/\u003e21. Various of staff setting up booth and helping tourists\u003cbr/\u003e22. SOUNDBITE: (English) Cindi Puniahaole, Public Outreach Volunteer Coordinator:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We do Reef Teach on a daily basis which is what our volunteers are doing today, educating the visitors on reef etiquette. How to take care of the corals and the fishes and the turtles that are in the bay and we find that it is very rewarding as the majority, over 90 percent of the visitors, do understand and respect the bay after they are educated and so we see now little polyps coming back in our bay.\"\u003cbr/\u003e23. Various of tourists in the water\u003cbr/\u003e24. Lifeguard, Michael Geary warning tourists UPSOUND: (English) \"Come around ... don't use the reefs to exit the water. Just swim in.\"\u003cbr/\u003e25. SOUNDBITE: (English) Michael Geary, Lifeguard:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The appeal of Kahalu'u is the turtles and the marine life that exists. You can get really close to a lot of the fish and people want to touch. We try to tell them not to touch; it's not good, it's not healthy, but people you know, they have a tough time controlling themselves.\"\u003cbr/\u003e26. People swimming in water alongside turtles\u003cbr/\u003eHawaii's Big Island is home to a very rare, if not unique, delicately balanced ecosystem, thanks in large part to the fact that thirteen out of fifteen of the world's climate zones can be found here. \u003cbr/\u003eAt the same time, institutions, small businesses and volunteers have all come together to devise creative ways to educate and involve tourists in developing a sustainable industry without harming the environment.\u003cbr/\u003eHawaii Island - or The Big Island as it is also known -  is the largest island in the state of Hawaii. \u003cbr/\u003eDue to its remote location from large land masses, Hawaii, and this island in particular, has evolved over millions of years into a delicately balanced ecosystem that by nature is non-competitive, and subsequently especially vulnerable to the outside world.\u003cbr/\u003eThe risks that this poses to the ecosystem can perhaps be better understood if explained in human terms. \u003cbr/\u003eThe first contact made with Europeans in 1778 with the arrival of British explorer, Captain James Cook. \u003cbr/\u003eHis expedition introduced disease to the hitherto remote islands, and this took a severe toll on Hawaii's population.\u003cbr/\u003eKristin McGrath of the Big Island Visitors' Bureau, explains that birds and animal species really developed without outside influences, without people, without predators, and so there is a need to protect this tremendous diversity of species.\u003cbr/\u003eAn example of a problem being caused by aggressive non-native Hawaiian plants is one related to the Kahili ginger, an invasive species from Nepal that is choking much of the forest at the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. \u003cbr/\u003eApparently the plant was brought to Hawaii, and to the park, by someone who thought it smelt good.\u003cbr/\u003eDanny Almonte is a guide with Hawaii Forest and Trail who brings tourists to the forest, and together they can help remove the invasive ginger by pulling it out by hand. \u003cbr/\u003eAlmonte says that the non-competitive nature of plants in Hawaii means they lose the battle, and the only way to help them out is by human intervention.\u003cbr/\u003eAnd this intervention goes hand in glove with the drive by native Hawaiians to revive everything about their culture. \u003cbr/\u003eThis drive has been going on for the last twenty to thirty years.\u003cbr/\u003eMatthews Hamabata is the Executive Director of the Kohala Centre.\u003cbr/\u003eHe explains how a lot of culture was lost with westernisation and colonisation which resulted in a transformation of Hawaii from a self sustaining society to one that is entirely dependent on fossil fuels. \u003cbr/\u003eOne project designed to help preserve the indigenous lifestyle is the ReefTeach project in Kahalu'u Bay in Kona.\u003cbr/\u003eHamabata says that without the efforts currently being made, the bay would have been trampled to death. \u003cbr/\u003eThe project's volunteers aim to educate tourists. 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