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‘They’re Super Cute’: How One Scientist Is Saving Weird Bugs From Extinction
Will Haines is intent on protecting the endangered damselfly from frogs, fish and other predators.
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Sea Turtles For Swordfish? Feds May Lift Cap On Endangered Species
Wespac has proposed easing federal regulations on the incidental entangling of loggerhead turtles by commercial longliners.
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Trump Weakens Protections For Hawaii’s Imperiled Plants And Animals
The revised Endangered Species Act regulations flabbergasted environmentalists who are concerned about warding off more extinctions.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.