Nathan Eagle/Civil Beat
This Rare Island Waterbird Is Becoming Citified
The endangered Hawaiian stilt is increasingly found on soccer fields, golf courses and wastewater treatment sites. But its adaptability poses new risks.
San Diego Zoo Global
Near-Extinct Native Crow Builds First Nest In Decades
One of the critically rare native Hawaiian crows appears to be incubating an egg, but first-time parents are not usually successful.
DLNR/2019
Tracking The Feral Cats That Kill Kauai’s Endangered Seabirds
Researchers are using satellite collars and other new tools to improve efforts to identify, isolate and dispose of the cats that pose the biggest risk.
Lindsay Young/Pacific Rim Conservation
Scientists Surprised To Find Endangered Seabirds On Oahu
The critically endangered Newell’s shearwater and Hawaiian petrel were thought to be living almost exclusively on Kauai.
Nathan Eagle/Civil Beat
Racing To Save Hawaii’s Songbirds From Extinction
Scientists are urgently searching for backup homes to protect the three remaining species in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
Courtesy: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
This Remote Hawaiian Island Just Vanished
Scientists are concerned about what will happen to the hundreds of endangered species that once called East Island home.
Nathan Eagle/Civil Beat
Rescued Monk Seals Recover At Big Island Animal Hospital
NOAA rescued the two malnourished pups in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands amid fears they wouldn’t survive the winter.
Forest and Kim Starr
Wind Farms Want Permission To Kill More Bats — A Lot More
In a “conservation conundrum,” projects to produce more clean energy are a threat to Hawaii’s only native land mammal.
Bryce Johnson/FLUX Hawaii
How Sen. Mazie Hirono Hopes To Save Hawaii’s Endangered Plants
A Senate bill would promote the hiring of more federal botanists and encourage the use of native plants in federal projects.
Anthony Quintano/Civil Beat
City Keeps Funding Feral Cat Approach That Legislature Rejected
A state agency opposes the trap-neuter-return-manage strategy, but Honolulu just ponied up $300,000 for the program.