#kuaihelani
Midway Atoll receives translocated Laysan finches from Manawai after 80 years since rats erradicated them from Midway Atoll in the mid-1940s
After 80 years, Kuaihelani (Midway Atoll) is once again home to the endangered ʻekupuʻu (Laysan finch). On July 21 and 22, a team of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service staff and partners released 100 birds at Kuaihelani on Eastern Island, making this the first time in eight decades that ʻekupuʻu graces the fields and skies of Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge and Battle of Midway Memorial.
70,080 pounds of marine debris removed from Kuaihelani within the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument
A team of 12 from the Papahānaumokuākea Marine Debris Project, a Hawaiʻi-based nonprofit organization, returned to Honolulu, having conducted their first of three marine debris cleanups planned for 2024. The latest mission lasted 19 days, from April 15 to May 3, with crews removing a total of 70,080 pounds of marine debris and cleaning 10.7 miles of shoreline at Kuaihelani (Midway Atoll) in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands within Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument.
