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International scientific study examines how wild animals react to human activity
One of the largest studies on wildlife activity — involving more than 220 researchers, 163 mammal species and 5,000 camera traps worldwide — reveals that wild animals react differently to human activity levels depending on where the animals live and what they eat. Hawai‘i-based authors include University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researchers Melissa Price and Derek Risch.
Deadline Today for Input on Windfarm Impacts
Today is the deadline for public comments on a draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement on four Hawaiʻi wind projects.
Maui Meeting Looks at Impacts of Wind Farms on Hawaiian Hoary Bat
The meeting will address the direct, indirect, and cumulative effects of Mauiʻs four wind farms on the ʻŌpeʻapeʻa as well as other issues facing the bat species
Proposed Increase to Incidental Take of Bat and Nēnē at Kaheawa
The state is proposing to issue an amended Incidental Take License at Kaheawa Wind Power II above Mā‘alaea to increase the amount of deaths allowed for the Hawaiian hoary bat and the nēnē during facility operations.
Hawaiʻi Awarded $3.8 M to Protect Threatened, Endangered Species
Hawaiʻi has received $3.8 million from the US Fish and Wildlife Service to protect threatened and endangered species through better land use management.