(Via BIVN) – A 75-year-old man “received wounds to his leg” in an apparent shark encounter that occurred after 10 a.m. Tuesday, within an isolated area between ‘Anaeho‘omalu Bay and Keawaiki off the Waikoloa coast of Hawai‘i Island.According to the Hawaiʻi Department of Land and Natural Resources: The man and three others report they were paddling outrigger canoes about a half-mile off shore when one of the boaters noticed the victim […]
A nonprofit group dedicated to recording whale songs wants to build a marine science center at Kawaihae Small Boat Harbor, and it’s secured support from a number of political, Native Hawaiian and marine backers. The applicant, Jupiter Research Foundation, is based in Los Altos, California, and Puako. In addition to its work with whales, the foundation also delves into wave glider instrumentation and the electrical behavior of plants, according to […]
This Surf Park live cams the conditions from Kawaihae. A vision for the future with an eye on the past Since the Hawaiian people first inhabited Kawaihae on the Kohala Coast of the Big Island, the reefs fronting Pua Ka`ilima Cultural Surf Park have been used for surfing. In 1992, Tiger Espere started a tradition bringing together surfers not only from the Big Island but from many parts of the […]
In the pitch black world of lava tubes, scientists find a world of unique creatures A group of scientists and researchers exploring lava caves on the Big Island have discovered unique creatures living in lava tubes. (Full article @: HawaiiNewsNow) University of Hawaii associate professor of biology Megan Porter believes a handful of the species have never been seen before. "We have a new species of beetle. We think the […]
Hui Malama Ola Na Oiwi is hosting a series of laau lapaau workshops to spread health and culture across Hawaii Island. The “Hoomana Ke Ola Na Kanaka Oiwi” — empowering the health of the Hawaiian people — workshops provide the opportunity to learn about the ancient Hawaiian healing practices of laau lapaau, hooponopono, lomilomi ha ha, and laau kahea. They’ll be led by Po‘okela Ikaika Dombrigues, who emphasizes the importance […]
Via Big Island Now- Catch up on the whereabouts of the ʻAlalā with Rachel Kingsley, the education and outreach associate for The ʻAlalā Project, during the presentation, Return to the Wild, One Year Later: an update on the reintroduction efforts of ʻAlalā, on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019, at 6:30 p.m. at Volcano Art Center’sNi‘aulani Campus in Volcano Village. Through intensive conservation efforts 11 ʻAlalā, the endemic and endangered Hawaiian crow, havesurvived in native […]
Well established elsewhere on the island, presence of the slug was confirmed through the efforts of students at Kohala Middle School participating in a citizen science effort.
Video at: KItv.com A 2,000 foot floating device launched in September to scoop-up plastic in the ocean, is in Hilo Harbor for repairs. The ambitious project to clean up some of the 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic in the "Great Garbage Patch" fell short after the U-shaped barrier broke just before the new year. "About 40 feet of the 2,000 feet was observed to be drifting away," said Joost Dubois, spokesperson with the Ocean Cleanup.The system, […]
Scientists have long documented the drastic decline of Hawaii’s only two endemic seabirds, the Newell’s shearwater and Hawaiian petrel. From 1993 to 2013, the shearwater population plummeted 94 percent and the petrel population fell 78 percent. Now critically endangered, they are almost exclusively found on Kauai. The two species hadn’t been found on Oahu since the late 1700s, just before Europeans arrived. But that may be changing. This automated acoustic […]
