From Maui’s coastlines to our mountain slopes, the naio tree provides shelter for native animals and helps prevent erosion. Naio…
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Kia'i Moku Column
Invasive longhorned beetle bores into fruit trees, threatening crops
In 2009, a resident of Orchidland subdivision in Puna on Hawaiʻi Island found a strange beetle with extremely long antennae…
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Illegal dumping risks spreading invasive species
The evening of July 24, 2018, a Maui resident living near the Five Corners area of Haʻikū heard something she…
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Introduced songbirds can be invasive in Hawai’i
In March of 2018, a cluster of reports from Maui residents and visitors of White-rumped shamas in West Maui came…
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Native species recovering at Mokio Preserve on Moloka’i
On the windswept, northwestern corner of Moloka’i there is an old cattle pasture that, until recently, was covered in kiawe,…
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The native dragonflies and damselflies of Hawaiʻi
Twenty million years ago the Hawaiian Island chain was very different from what we see today. Laysan and Gardner Pinnacles…
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