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Your search found 90 hits- Classroom Presentations and Field TripsClassroom Presentations Your classroom or community group can request a presentation from our outreach and education specialists, in-person or virtually. Contact our staff directly: Hawaiʻi Island: Andrea Buskirk, [email protected] Maui Nui: Jeff Bagshaw, [email protected] Oʻahu:… Read More »
- Help To Restore The Symphony In The Forest(Honolulu) – Mosquitos and rats can be pests for people, but they’re also very harmful to our endangered native birds. The Kauai Forest Bird Recovery Project (KFBRP) is starting an end-of-the-year fundraising and outreach campaign to help the native birds on the island recover their population.
- Game Bird Hunting Season For 2016-2017 To Start On November 5HONOLULU -- The Department of Land and Natural Resources announces the opening of the 2016-2017 Game Bird Hunting Season on Saturday, November 5, 2016. Department biologists are predicting a below average season of bird hunting, with lingering drought impacts in many parts of the state. The fall game bird hunting season will run through Sunday, January 29, 2017. A valid hunting license and a game bird stamp are required for all game bird hunting on public and private lands. All game bird hunting is regulated by Hawaii Administrative Rules Title 13, Chapter 122 (see https://hawaii.gov/dlnr/dofaw “Administrative Rules” for all legal hunting days).
- Announcement for the 2016-2017 Game Bird Hunting SeasonANNOUNCEMENT FOR THE 2016-2017 GAME BIRD HUNTING SEASON The Department of Land and Natural Resources announces the opening of the 2016-2017 Game Bird Hunting Season on Saturday, November 5, 2016. Department biologists are predicting a… Read More »
- Governor Abercrombie Kicks Off Hawaii Invasive Species Awareness WeekHONOLULU—On Monday March 3rd, Governor Neil Abercrombie kicked off Hawaii Invasive Species Awareness week with a proclamation and special recognition of this year’s Hawaii Invasive Species Council Award Recipients.
- Conservation LeadersWatch Fern share his 38-year history of conservation in Hawaiʻi, and his manaʻo for future conservationists
- Saving Kauai’s Endangered Seabirds – Local School Children Release Rescued Shearwater Chicks Back Out To Sea(Lihu‘e) – School children from Kalaheo Elementary School and Island School helped release ten fledgling ‘A‘o (Newell’s Shearwaters) over the last two days during the annual E Ho‘opomaika‘i ‘ia na Manu ‘A‘o (A Cultural Release of the Native Newell’s Shearwater) event at Lydgate Park. The young seabirds had been rescued by people then rehabilitated by Save Our Shearwaters (SOS). Before they started their journey back out to sea, Kupuna Maureen Fodale offered a pule (Hawaiian prayer).
- “Operation Snail Bail” Moves 2000 rare Hawaiian Snails To Safety(Honolulu) – Late yesterday, four members of the DLNR Division of Forestry and Wildlife’s (DOFAW) Snail Extinction Prevention Program transferred 2,000 rare Hawaiian snails from a temporary structure at Kawainui Marsh to DLNR’s main administrative offices at the Kalanimoku Building in downtown Honolulu.
- Rat Sniffing Dogs Deployed To Try & Find Remaining Few Rats On Lehua; Specially Trained Border Terriers Spend Four Days Scouring the Island(Lihue) – Henry and Reese are six-year-old and three-year-old Border Terriers respectively, who spent most of last week crisscrossing the rugged, hot, wind-swept terrain of tiny Lehua Island. Lehua is a State Seabird Sanctuary and the site of an intensive restoration project over the past nine months to protect seabirds by removing invasive rats. In 2017, the partners of the Lehua Island Restoration Project applied a conservation bait to remove the population of invasive Pacific rats which eat the chicks of nesting seabirds and devour the native plants that help support a large variety of bird life here.
- DLNR Will Issue New Hunting Licenses and Stamps For The New Hunting Season(HONOLULU) — Effective June 15, 2018, the Department of Land and Natural Resources district and administrative offices will begin issuing hunting licenses and stamps for the new hunting season (July 1, 2018 through June 30, 2019). A valid hunting license is required for hunting on public and private lands. All game mammal hunting is regulated by Hawai‘i Administrative Rules Title 13, Chapter 123, and all game bird hunting is regulated by Hawai‘i Administrative Rules Title 13, Chapter 122 (see https://hawaii.gov/dlnr/dofaw “Administrative Rules” for all legal hunting days).