#hawaii state flower

New special edition SPAM can pays homage to Maui

Hawaiʻi-based muralist and artist Kamea Hadar partnered with the makers of the SPAM brand team to develop a special, limited-edition Hawaiʻi Collector’s Edition Spam can, announced the SPAM brand team on Monday.

New mysterious viruses infecting hibiscus on Oʻahu discovered by UH researchers

Two new viruses are infecting hibiscus plants in Hawaiʻi and they could pose a threat to the state flower, the yellow hibiscus, according to researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

$350K in federal funds secured to protect endangered species on Molokaʻi

$350,000 in congressionally directed spending will to to the Molokaʻi Land Trust to support construction of predator-proof fencing to protect threatened and endangered species within the Mokio Preserve.