Ways to Get Involved
You can support your national wildlife refuges by joining organizations such as the National Wildlife Refuge Association that actively supports and advocates for the National Wildlife Refuge System. Volunteer opportunities can also be found at volunteer.gov.
Volunteering
Discover for yourself what tens of thousands of volunteers have learned: Volunteering for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is fun and rewarding in many ways. Master new skills. Meet new friends. Enjoy a sense of accomplishment from doing your part to further wildlife conservation for the pleasure of generations to follow. Check out our station's latest volunteer opportunities on volunteer.gov.
Our Partners
In July 2004, The Nature Conservancy established the Palmyra Atoll Research Consortium (PARC) with researchers from around the globe (Stanford University, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, American Museum of Natural History, California Academy of Sciences, University of California at Santa Barbara, University of California at Irvine, University of Hawaii, U.S. Geological Survey, and Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand). This collaborative partnership of universities, museums, and conservation organizations conducts innovative, interdisciplinary work on the natural systems of Palmyra Atoll and the central Pacific. These studies span the realms of both land and sea, and include diverse fields such as oceanography, geology, chemistry, and biology. PARC scientists are researching everything from the ocean currents that wash this remote atoll to the microbes, plankton, plants, crabs, fish, sharks, whales, and birds that live here. The PARC research provides a fundamental understanding of nature, broadens public appreciation of marine conservation, and informs management of island and coastal ecosystems worldwide.
Due to the on-going efforts of Protect Palmyra, an organization represented by Island Conservation, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service National Wildlife Refuge System and The Nature Conservancy of Hawai'i, Protect Palmyra has completely eradicated non-native black rats from the Atoll ecosystem. From the 1940's through 2011 black rats killed nesting seabird chicks, land crabs and was a threat to one of the last stands of Pisonia forest on the planet. Giving native species a chance to thrive and function as nature intended requires hands-on management backed by good research and science methods that Protect Palmyra continues to provide.
