Mokauea island is important because it is both historically significant and contains a variety of native types of species. "Mokauea Island is the site of O'ahu's last Hawaiian fishing village, and one of the only two left in Hawai'i where hundreds such villages thrived in pre-European times." (Mokauea #1) Its ecosystem and the species that we are currently looking at is very important because if we can find a connection between the native and invasive limu species, our observations could potentially provide a pioneering effort in the restoration of the island and win the war against the invasive species. Not only limu, but others as well. After extensive research on the different types of limu that exist in Hawaii both native and invasive, we find that an invasive type of algae known as "gorilla ogo" or its scientific name as (gracilaria salicornia) has grown numerous in the fishpond on Mokauea island. This raises much concern as these invasive species could tip off the balance of the fragile ecosystem and native animals that eat only native limu could die off because the invasive limu is foreign to their tastes. This could eventually lead to the lack of food source and ultimately could make these native animals extinct.