The Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources ( DLNR ) has completed construction of the first predator-proof fence in the Hawaiian Islands, and in the United States, at the Ka‘ena Point Natural Area Reserve on Oahu. Spanning 700 m in length and...
The Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources ( DLNR ) completed construction of the first predator-proof fence in the Hawaiian Islands, and the United States, at the Ka‘ena Point Natural Area Reserve on Oahu in March of this year ( click here )....
The second week in December marks the time when the annual "albatross egg swap" occurs on the island of Kauai, Hawaii, an innovative programme designed to discourage Laysan Albatrosses Phoebastria immutabilis from breeding on military airplane runways...
When Cole Porter wrote the cowboy song "Don't Fence Me In" for the movies way back in 1934 he pretty certainly did not have albatrosses in mind. However, Lindsay Young and Eric Vanderwerf of Pacific Rim Conservation certainly did when they set up the...
The majority of the World's albatrosses breeds on uninhabited islands that are mostly free from land-based predators. However, on the main Hawaiian Islands in the North Pacific there are several small colonies of Laysan Albatrosses Phoebastria...
The Hawaiian Department of Land and Natural Resources ( DLNR ) announced this week that a record number of Wedge-tailed Shearwaters Puffinus pacificus (Ua‘u kani) have hatched within the Ka'ena Point Natural Area Reserve on the island of Oahu. Success...
Laysan Albatrosses Phoebastria immutabilis on the Hawaiian island of Kauai breed in some unusual places: within a military missile range, adjacent to a lighthouse, on golf courses and in suburban gardens. At all localities save within the Kilauea Point...
Lindsay Young ( Pacific Rim Conservation , Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii) and colleagues have produced a technical report that details the success of the predator-proof fence at Kaena Point on the Hawaiian island of Oahu which is allowing ACAP-listed Laysan...
Predator-proof fences are increasingly being used to keep pests out of area of natural habitats that support threatened species, despite some controversy over their cost-effectiveness. Most fences are erected on the mainland or on inhabited islands...
Isla Guadalupe lies 240 km off Mexico’s Baja Peninsula. The 244-km² island has a small human population that mainly subsists on fishing. During the 1983/84 winter breeding season Near Threatened Laysan Albatrosses Phoebastria immutabilis bred on Isla...
The predator-proof fence at Kaena Point on the Hawaiian island of Oahu that was erected in 2011 has already proven a success with improved breeding within it by both ACAP-listed Laysan Albatrosses Phoebastria immutabilis and Wedge-tailed Shearwaters...
The Hawaiian Department of Land and Natural Resources ( DLNR ) has issued a reminder to pet owners to keep pet dogs on leashes after three adult Laysan Albatrosses Phoebastria immutabilis were killed on the North shore of the Hawaiian island of Kaua’i...
The Kuaokala Game Management Area (GMA) supports a small colony of Near Threatened Laysan Albatrosses Phoebastria immutabilis that breed at around 500 m in elevation in an invasive Ironwood Casuarina equisetifolia forest on the Hawaiian island of Oahu...
The Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge (KPNWR) was established on the Hawaiian island of Kauai in 1985 to preserve its seabird breeding colonies. It was expanded in 1988 to include Crater Hill and Mokolea Point. The publically-accessible 82-ha...
The Kaua‘i National Wildlife Refuge Complex on the USA’s Hawaiian island of Kaua‘i is comprised of the Hanalei, Hulē‘ia and Kīlauea Point National Wildlife Refuges. This month as part of the USA’s National Wildlife Refuge Week the refuge complex is...
Kauai, one of the USA’s inhabited Hawaiian Islands in the North Pacific, supports several populations of Laysan Albatrosses Phoebastria immutabilis . Although small, these populations are considered significant because their height puts them above...
Efforts have commenced to establish a new Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis colony on the northern coast of the USA's Hawaiian island of O‘ahu in the James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge . Forty-three eggs from the US Navy’s Pacific Missile...
Kaloakulua must now be pretty famous. The offspring of Kaluahine and Kaluakane, a pair of Laysan Albatrosses Phoebastria immutabilis on the north-east shore of the USA’s Kauai Island, its growth from hatching to fledging was livestreamed for 148 days...
UPDATE: The stray dog, a "mixed-breed hound" was later euthanized ( click here ). A stray dog has killed 33 Wedge-tailed Shearwaters Ardenna pacifica in a colony at the Pacific Missile Range Facility Barking Sands ( PMRF ) on the Hawaiian island of...
On 22 June 2012 domestic dogs entered a Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis colony on private but unfenced land in Moloa'a on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, killing eight chicks and injuring five more a few days before they were expected to fledge...
