When horticulturalists at Maui Nui Botanical Gardens want to give an extra boost to their most sensitive and critically endangered…
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In the field
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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Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit: the fingers on the keyboards that get the boots on the ground
On any given day, there are hundreds of people at work throughout Hawai‘i to protect the ‘āina. Fence crews pound…
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Protecting the Northwest Hawaiian Islands from Invasive Species
Stretching 1,200 miles across the Pacific, past Kaua‘i and Ni‘ihau, lies a sting of tiny islands and obscure atolls ringed…
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Roomba on the Reef–Native collector urchins on the prowl for invasive algae
Let’s say you are trying to remove tiny piece of invasive plant material from an area 8 miles long and…
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