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Your search found 1424 hits- 03/02/15 – Hawaii’s Top Ten Invasive Species Highlighted During Annual WeekHONOLULU – Little fire ants, coconut rhinoceros beetles, albizia trees, rats, mongoose, strawberry guava, coqui frogs, miconia, fireweed and invasive algae all share one common trait. As invasive species, they provide examples of some of the worst offenders among the many plants and animals that pose what the state legislature has declared as “the single greatest threat to Hawaii’s economy, natural environment and to the health and lifestyle of Hawaii’s people.” Hawaii’s isolation has made our island state home to more invasive species than anywhere else in the U.S.
- 03/02/15 – HISAW Kaneohe Bay Invasive Algae Control ProjectHISAW Kaneohe Bay Invasive Algae Control Project
- 03/02/15 – Heroes In The Fight Against Invasive Species Recognized At Capitol CeremonyHonolulu – What do Hawaiian Airlines, volunteers, a National Guardsman, a property management company, plant quarantine inspectors, and a hui of government agencies all have in common? They are all recipients of Invasive Species Achievement Awards today at the wrap-up of the annual Hawaii Invasive Species Awareness Week (HISAW) at the Hawaii State Capitol. In addition a tireless worker is recognized with a 2014 National Invasive Species Achievement Award for her efforts in outreach and education.
- 03/02/15 – Governor David Ige Proclaims Hawaii Invasive Species Awareness WeekAt a ceremony at the Hawaii State Capitol today, Governor David Ige proclaimed Invasive Species Awareness Week. This was one part of a day-long celebration to bring attention to the issue of invasive species across the islands and to recognize volunteers, organizations and businesses who continue to play a critical role in addressing what the legislature has described as the biggest threat to life in Hawaii.
- 04/01/15 – Critically Endangered Hawaiian Monk Seals Returned to Northwestern Hawaiian Islands(Honolulu) – On March 25, two critically endangered Hawaiian monk seals (Neomonachus schauinslandi) were successfully returned to Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument after being rehabilitated at The Marine Mammal Center’s Ke Kai Ola Hawaiian Monk Seal Hospital in Kona. The seals were rescued last year in an emaciated state, one on Kure Atoll and another on Laysan Island, during NOAA Fisheries Hawaiian Monk Seal Research Program’s field camp season.
- Land Board – Submittals – 04/24/15AGENDA FOR THE MEETING OF THE BOARD OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES DATE: FRIDAY, April 24, 2015 TIME: 09:00 A.M. PLACE: KALANIMOKU BUILDING LAND BOARD CONFERENCE ROOM 132 1151 PUNCHBOWL STREET HONOLULU, HAWAII 96813 … Read More »
- 04/18/15 – Nighttime Banding Of Wedge-Tailed Shearwaters On Maui Helps Track Population And Reproductive BehaviorsKapalua, Maui– A group of volunteers, led by staff from the Maui Nui Seabird Recovery Project, banded 150 adult wedge-tailed shearwaters at a Kapalua colony in West Maui last night. Spring nighttime efforts to capture returning adults to look for banded birds recruiting into the breeding population began in 2008. Additionally unbanded adults are banded during the project.
- 04/29/15 – Progress Made In Fighting Black Band Coral Disease On KauaiHONOLULU – Black Band disease was found at nearly half of the reef sites surveyed for the presence of the disease in near-shore waters on Kauai. These are the findings contained in a final report authored by the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB). Researcher Chris Runyon and her team surveyed 47 coral reef sites over the past year and found the disease in 23 (48%) of them. Runyon said, “A weak relationship was found between the abundance of the disease and water temperature. The lesions caused by black band disease become more active in the summer.” Previous work established the disease is affecting three species of Montipora, or rice, corals and also showed disease "hotspots" at Makua and Anini beaches.
- 04/30/15 – Makena Area Beaches Reopen After Fatal Shark IncidentHonolulu – Maui beaches, which had been closed for one mile in each direction from the location of yesterday’s fatal shark incident at Kanahena (Dumps) in the Ahihi Kinau Natural Area Reserve on Maui, were reopened as of 12 noon today.
- 05/25/15 – High Tech Radar Trucks Begin Annual Seabird Monitoring, ‘A’o and Ua’u Tracked at NightLIHU 'E – Annual seabird radar monitoring work has now begun in conjunction with the start of the breeding season for both both ‘A‘o (Newell’s Shearwaters) and Ua’u (Hawaiian Petrels) on Kaua’i. This is a project of the Kauai Endangered Seabird Recovery Project (KESRP).