Using satellite imagery, federal scientists confirmed Monday that East Island, a critical habitat for endangered Hawaiian monk seals and green sea turtles, was almost entirely washed away earlier this month. It’s unclear if East Island — an 11-acre spit of sand and gravel that hosted a U.S. Coast Guard radar station until 1952 — will ever return or how resilient the displaced animals will be.
If you got incessant phone calls last week from a hospital that cares for Hawaiian monk seals, you were butt-dialed. By a gecko.
Permits to Receive Carcasses Available Later this month, the DLNR Division of Forestry and Wildlife (DOFAW) will conduct animal control activities specifically for trapping mouflon/feral sheep hybrids, feral goats, feral sheep, mouflon and mouflon/feral sheep hybrids within in the Mauna Kea Forest Reserve (Unit A), Mauna Kea Ice Age Natural Area Reserve (Unit K), Palila Mitigation Lands, and the Kaohe Game Management Area (Unit G) on Hawai‘i island. Aerial shooting […]
Hawai‘i County Mayor Harry Kim on Post-Eruption Pohoiki The letter from Mayor Kim, written in response to concerns of Pāhoa Residents Josh and Laila Rena, stated the following: Dear Josh and Laila Rena, Thank you very much for your letters of Sept. 24, 2018, regarding future planning for Pohoiki in the recovery from the Lower East Rift Zone eruption. I share your love of the beauty of Pohoiki, and I […]
KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii (AP) — Two Hawaiian monk seal pups found malnourished on Laysan Island are recovering at an animal hospital on the Big Island. A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration team surveying the endangered monk seal populations last month in the northwestern Hawaiian Islands found the male and female pups were undersized and underweight. The recently weaned pups named Akulikuli and Maiapilo were expected in mid-September at Ke Kai Ola, […]
