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Pacific Rim Conservation interns practice social distancing to display their World Albatross Day art
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...
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Hands-on conservation: translocating Hawaiian Petrels and Newell’s Shearwater chicks with the Nihoku Ecosystem Restoration Project
(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...
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Downed Newell’s Shearwater fledglings get a ceremony on release and Hawaiian Petrel chicks get translocated on Kauai
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...
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UPDATED Translocation of Endangered Newell's Shearwaters on Kauai: third year underway
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...
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Kauai’s Laysan Albatross chicks come through a monster storm
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...
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75 threatened Hawaiian Petrels and Newell’s Shearwaters fledge in the first three years of relocation into a predator-proof reserve on the island of Kauai
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....
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Full score for a Hawaiian translocation exercise as 36 petrels and shearwaters fly free in the first two years
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...
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Creating a colony: eight Newell’s Shearwater chicks translocated to within a predator-proof fence
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...
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Translocated Hawaiian Petrel chicks start to fledge behind their predator-proof fence
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...
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Hawaiian Petrel chicks are successfully translocated to a fenced sanctuary within the Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge
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...
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