It's home to three native bird species, five extremely rare snail species and eighteen native plants you won't find anywhere else on Earth. This seventy-acre site has been allocated to the The Gorilla Foundation for the protection, preservation and propagation of gorillas and other endangered species. It's most famous resident is Koko, the female gorilla who is able to communicate with humans using a sign language vocabulary of more than 800 words. In 1993, The Bay Course at Kapalua became the first golf course in the country certified as an Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary. Today, all three golf courses are certified, offering much needed protection to twenty-three species of birds.
Marine life is protected and abundant.