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...
