Features
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Wisdom has done it again!
At 67, Wisdom, the world’s oldest known breeding bird in the wild, is a mother once more! On February 6th, approximately two months after Wisdom began incubating her egg, Wisdom and her mate Akeakamai welcomed their newest chick to Midway Atoll. Read her story.
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Millerbird turns the tables on biologists.
On a recent trip to Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument, a USFWS biologists got a rare visit from an endangered Nihoa Millerbird.
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Captive Breeding Native Forest Birds: Akikiki and Akekee
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, in partnership with the Kauai Forest Bird Recovery Project, Department of Land and Natural Resources Division of Forestry and Wildlife, and San Diego Zoo Global bring two species of endemic Kauai honeycreeper into captivity to prevent them from extinction. See the project in action.
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Mysterious Disease Threatens Critical Hawaiian Forests
Rapid Ohia Death, has been detected on Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge on Hawai‘i Island. ROD is a newly identified, rapidly-spreading fungal disease that kills native Ohia trees. Learn more about Rapid Ohia Death at Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge.
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Ohia lehua: the Foundation of Hawaii's Forest Ecosystem
When you travel through the barren lava fields of the big island of Hawaii, you will see single trees breaking up through the bleak expanse of jagged black basalt. The outreaching limbs contain foliage that dots the landscape in green and yellow and red. These hardy trees are the cornerstone of Hawaiian forests, and they are under attack. Learn more about Ohia lehua.
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Midway Seabird Protection Project Draft Environmental Assessment
Mice are attacking nesting albatross on Midway Atoll – resulting in injury, nest abandonment and death. In order to protect the seabirds from the invasive predator, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to remove the house mouse from Midway Atoll. A draft environmental assessment for the project is available for public comment from March 21 – April 20.
Review the draft environment assessment and learn how to provide your comments at: https://goo.gl/SYrAeo.
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Lalamilo Wind Company Project Public Comment Period
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is seeking public comment on a draft habitat conservation plan and associated environmental assessment prepared by the Lalamilo Wind Farm Repowering Project on Hawaii Island. Public comments will be accepted December 1 – January 16, 2018.
Lalamilo Wind Company LLC requested a 20-year incidental take permit and submitted a draft HCP, proposing strategies to avoid, minimize and offset potential direct, indirect and cumulative effects of the wind project’s operation and maintenance on the endangered Hawaiian hoary bat and Hawaiian petrel. The permit addresses the incidental take of the endangered Hawaiian hoary bat and the endangered Hawaiian petrel that may result from maintaining and operating the Lalamilo Wind Farm Repowering Project.
Federal Register Notice
Information Bulletin
Draft Environmental Assessment
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Draft Habitat Conservation Plan for Lalamilo Wind Farm
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Nene Proposed for Reclassification from Endangered to Threatened
After 60 years of collaborative conservation efforts among federal, state, NGOs and local partners, the Hawaiian Goose, or nene, may be one step closer to recovery. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to downlist the Hawaiian goose from endangered to threatened.
The public comment period will begin on Monday April 2, 2018 and will run until June 1, 2018.
Read More and Find out About Submitting Comments
Learn More About the Proposal to Downlist
Federal Register Public Inspection Notice
Documents Available
Kamehameha Schools Safe Harbor Agreement
The Service has received an application from Kamehameha Schools, a private charitable education trust, for an enhancement of survival permit. The application includes a draft Safe Harbor Agreement between Kamehameha Schools, the Service, and the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources. The proposal is to conduct proactive conservation activities to promote the survival and recovery of 32 federally endangered species and one species currently proposed for listing.
Federal Register Notice
Safe Harbor Appendix
Draft Environmental Action Statement
Draft Safe Harbor Agreement
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Celebrating 100 years of Migratory Bird Conservation
2016 marks the centennial of the Convention between the United States and Great Britain (for Canada) for the Protection of Migratory Birds, signed on Aug. 16, 1916. This Migratory Bird Treaty, and three others that followed with Japan, Russia, and Mexico, form the cornerstones of our efforts to conserve birds that migrate across international borders. Here in Hawai‘i, many of our native birds are protected under these treaties and we are joining the celebration island style!
