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- 09/04/16 – Rescue Of Newell’s Shearwater Chick Demonstrates ChallengesDEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES DAVID Y. IGE GOVERNOR SUZANNE D. CASE CHAIRPERSON MEDIA ADVISORY RESCUE OF NEWELL’S SHEARWATER CHICK DEMONSTRATES CHALLENGES A tiny Newell’s Shearwater chick, rescued from […]
- 08/26/16 – DLNR & YOU – Ensuring a Future for Hawaii’s Endangered Forest Birds; 2 Species On The Brink Of Extinction Being Brought Into Safety From Threats In The Wild(Lihue, Kauai) Hawaii’s forest birds are one of the best examples anywhere in the world, of what’s known as adaptive radiation. This means a few founding individual species evolved into a multitude of species. They’re also a key reason Hawaii holds the unenviable nickname of “extinction capitol of the world”, as many species have disappeared since the arrival of people to the islands. Most of the remaining are highly endangered and the subject of intense conservation efforts. Habitat loss and degradation, non-native predators, landscape-altering invasive weeds, and avian disease spread by mosquitoes have all contributed to the current predicament faced by these species.
- 08/22/16 – DLNR & YOU – Protecting All Creatures Great and Small; Kamehameha Butterfly & Rare Tree Snail Get a Helping Hand(Honolulu) – The deep, beautiful orange and black hue of Hawai’i’s official state insect is well known by visitors to native forests, and cultural practitioners. It is considered a critical pollinator for numerous native plants. The Kamehameha butterfly, like so many insects, plants, and animals in Hawai’i, is being crowded out of its traditional habitat by ever-encroaching human presence, the introduction of invasive predator species, and global climate change. Although the butterfly is historically known from all the main Hawaiian Islands (Kauaʻi, Oʻahu, Molokaʻi, Lanaʻi, Maui, and Hawai’i), it is no longer found in some areas where it used to be common and it appears to be declining. The Pulelehua Project includes an effort to map current populations of the Kamehameha butterfly using observations submitted by the public, combined with surveys of remote areas by scientists. Pulelehua is the Hawaiian word for butterfly.
- 08/23/16 – HAWAII’S NATURAL AREA RESERVES SYSTEM PROTECTS HAWAII’S MOST PRISTINE AND WILD PLACESDEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES DAVID Y. IGE GOVERNOR SUZANNE D. CASE CHAIRPERSON MEDIA ADVISORY HAWAII’S NATURAL AREA RESERVES SYSTEM PROTECTS HAWAII’S MOST PRISTINE AND WILD PLACES WHAT: The statewide Natural […]
- 08/28/16 – DLNR & YOU – Growing Native Plants For Species Recovery And To Protect Land And Watersheds(Honolulu) – When Silene perlmanii, an extremely rare small shrub with delicate white flowers, was discovered on O‘ahu by botanist Steve Perlman in 1987, just 20 individuals remained in the wild. Within three years, only 6 plants remained, dwindling to a single individual by 1994. The decline of this species at the last known wild site has been attributed to aggressive weeds and introduced ungulates damaging the habitat.
- 08/30/16 – Guiding Restoration Of Hawaiian FishpondsDEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES DAVID Y. IGE GOVERNOR SUZANNE D. CASE CHAIRPERSON MEDIA ADVISORY GUIDING RESTORATION OF HAWAIIAN FISHPONDS WHAT: Loko i‘a or Hawaiian fishponds are unique aquaculture systems […]
- 09/01/16 – Media Opportunities/News Conferences During The IUCN World Conservation Congress Hawai‘i 2016DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES DAVID Y. IGE GOVERNOR SUZANNE D. CASE CHAIRPERSON MEDIA ADVISORY DLNR & YOU MEDIA OPPORTUNITIES/NEWS CONFERENCES DURING THE IUCN WORLD CONSERVATION CONGRESS HAWAI‘I 2016 The […]