Pacific Southwest Research Station

How do you protect native tropical forests in the Republic of Palau that help sustain life on Earth? Scientists from the Institute of Pacific Islands Foresty (IPIF) in Hilo, Hawai'i and communities in Palau are following nature’s lead. In the early 2000s, Susan Cordell, research ecologist with IPIF, hiked in Palau’s tropical lowland forests, which are some of the most intact in Micronesia.