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US Navy ordered to provide information on potential harm to Guam’s wildlife
Guam is home to many imperiled species found nowhere else on Earth, including the ababang, or eight spot butterfly, a rare native insect that depends on intact forest habitat and healthy native plant communities to survive.
Hawai‘i Supreme Court rules in commercial aquarium fish collection case
The Hawai‘i Supreme Court ruled in a 4-1 decision today that the pet industry’s environmental review of commercial aquarium fish collection in West Hawai‘i is legally adequate.
Critical habitat designated for 12 endangered species on Hawaiʻi Island
The US Fish and Wildlife Service today designated 119,326 acres as protected critical habitat for 11 plants and a Hawaiian picture-wing fly on Hawai‘i Island. The protected habitat is in 21 distinct areas stretching from the coast through dry forest and grasslands to rainforests on the slopes of Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa.
