Aunty Penny Martin is a lei-maker on Molokaʻi. She was talking story one day with a friend visiting from Hawaiʻi…
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Kia'i Moku Column
Got Guano?
When horticulturalists at Maui Nui Botanical Gardens want to give an extra boost to their most sensitive and critically endangered…
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Look closely—the endemic insects of Haleakalā
The flightless moth of Haleakalā is one of the more dramatic examples of evolution in Hawaiian insects. Known to science…
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Christmas berry’s unwelcome presence
Covered in glossy green leaves and bedecked with red berries, the invasive shrub, Schinus terebinthifolius, is commonly known by the…
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Pueo or barn owl: here’s the difference
In Hawai‘i , owls are creatures of myth. Owls are said to rescue lost souls from the underworld and guide…
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Hawaiian Hoary Bat-Our Only Native Land Mammal
Under the cover of night a skilled hunter twists and turns in the Hawaiian sky, darting and dodging trees with…
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