A new relocation project on Maui aims to increase habitat for the threatened Kiwikiu, Maui Parrotbill bird.

A species of fern previously unknown to science has been discovered by botanists as they surveyed areas around remote waterfalls along Haleakalā on Maui.

The DLNR Division of Forestry and Wildlife has just released a draft management plan for the Nakula Natural Area Reserve on Maui that is expected to help guide restoration and management activities there for the foreseeable future.

A group of volunteers, led by staff from the Maui Nui Seabird Recovery Project, banded 150 adult wedge-tailed shearwaters (‘Ua’u kani) at a Kapalua colony in West Maui on Friday night.

Isao Nakagawa, a local fisherman and retired Maui Land & Pineapple Company employee found remains of pre-dated shearwaters in 2001 at Ha-wea Point in Kapalua.

After at least 30 days, the HDOA plans to do an initial release of the small scale insect on Hawai`i Island to control the spread of the invasive strawberry guava plant in Hawaii's native forests.

With notebooks and binoculars in hand dozens of wildlife biologists will take to Hawai`i’s wetlands on Wednesday, Jan. 21 for the statewide bi-annual waterbird surveys. Department of Land and Natural Resources’ (DLNR) Division of Forestry and Wildlife staff and volunteers will set out as early as 6 a.m. to survey more than 250 wetland sites... Read more »