to sea” ( click here ). The site will also avoid the problem of light pollution adversely affecting fledging shearwaters. Nihoku Ecosystem Restoration Project site looking to the north-east Lindsay Young of Pacific Rim Conservation is once more...
Mice Mus musculus and Small Indian Mongoose Herpestes auropunctatus . The Draft Environmental Assessment (DEA) for the Nihoku Ecosystem Restoration Project (NERP) is now available ( click here ). “This project comes at a particularly important time for...
perimeter of the refuge provides some protection to its breeding seabirds against the larger predators. Additionally, the Nihoku (Crater Hill) Ecosystem Restoration Project aims to protect and restore the native environment of Nihoku within the wildlife...
Newell's Shearwaters P. newelli on Kauai where it is intended to translocate chicks into the to-be-fenced area at Nihoku ( click here ) in the next few years. A further international connection was when a field trip to the colony as part of the 5th...
predator-proof fence on the slopes of Nīhoku (Crater Hill) within the complex following a ground-breaking ceremony in June. Nihoku Ecosystem Restoration Project site The fence with a mesh skirt and a rolled hood is the second of its type to be erected...
Hawaiian Petrel or ‘Ua‘u Pterodroma sandvicensis from its montane colonies into a fenced and predator-free site at Nihoku within the Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. The fenced area is also expected to offer a safe...
on the ground assessed their health. From there, they were driven to the recently completed predator-proof fence in the Nihoku area of the Refuge. Surrounded by fine mesh stainless steel fencing, the enclosure at Nihoku protects the birds from...
artificial burrows had been prepared and a drip irrigation system set up to help establish native vegetation within the Nihoku part of the refuge. The project also involves restoring native habitat in what was once an area full of invasive and...
from their montane-nesting areas in the Hawaiian island of Kauai to a coastal site protected by a predator-proof fence at Nihoku within the Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge . They (along with an eighth chick found earlier) are being raised by hand...
The last of 20 translocated Hawaiian Petrel Pterodroma sandwichensis chicks have fledged from the fenced Nihoku section of the Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge on Hawaiian Kauai Island this breeding season ( click here ). A Hawaiian Petrel chick...
and the first season for globally Endangered Newell’s Shearwaters Puffinus newelli to a predator-proof enclosure at Nihoku within the Kīlauea Point National Wildlife Refuge on the Hawaiian island of Kauai has resulted in 75 hand-reared birds fledging....
their human guardians. Mahalo to them all! According to a posting today on the Pacific Rim Conservation's Facebook page the Nihoku predator-proof fence on Kauai wasn’t badly damaged by the storm despite sediment piling up. The fenced area where...
their burrows. Seventeen birds were moved from the Upper Limahuli Preserve and Hono O Nā Pali Natural Area Reserve to the Nihoku Ecosystem Restoration Project ’s predator-proof site near the island’s coastline within the Kīlauea Point National Wildlife...
from their Kauai mountain home in the Hono o Na Pali Natural Area Reserve over two days by the KESRP to the predator-fenced Nihoku site within the Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge to be hand reared in artificial burrows alongside the translocated...
(KPNWR), which is home to one of the largest seabird colonies in the main Hawaiian Islands. The project was named the “Nihoku Ecosystem Restoration Project” after the area on the Refuge where the placement of the future colony was planned. The Nihoku...
new, safe nesting sites for them on high-islands by creating 'mainland islands'. Our two current flagship projects are the Nihoku Ecosystem Restoration Project at Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge on the island of Kaua‘i and the Albatross...
Recovery Project. Twelve downy chicks were transferred to their new home within the predator-proof fence at the coastal Nihoku Ecosystem Restoration Project site with a further eight chicks collected the next day and placed in artificial burrows. For...
The translocated chicks were placed in artificial burrows within a specially built predator-proof fence at the coastal Nihoku Ecosystem Restoration Project site within the Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge. “First Flight: Hawaiian Petrels Journey...
Hawaiian Petrel Pterodroma sandwichensis within a predator-proof fence on the Hawaiian island of Kauai as part of the Nihoku Ecosystem Restoration Project. An extract from the chapter’s Introduction follows: “The Critically Endangered Newell’s...
The first translocated Hawaiian Petrel returns to Nihoku in May 2020, trail camera photograph by the Nihokū Ecosystem Restoration Project ACAP Latest News has regularly reported on the efforts to establish a breeding colony of Endangered Hawaiian...
