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A depredation event in which pigs destroyed or ate dozens of eggs from nesting albatross, is suspected as the cause of survival issues for at least one mōlī or Laysan Albatross.

Conservation partners were able to provide a new home, safe from invasive predators,  for a total of 39 endangered seabird chicks, according to the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR). Twenty of the birds were the endangered Uaʻu, or Hawaiian Petrel, and 19 of them were the threatened ʻAʻo, or Newell’s Shearwater. The birds […]

A historic project more than 30 years in the making took place on Kauaʻi’s north shore on Monday when 10 endangered Hawaiian Petrel chicks were flown by helicopter from their nesting area to a new colony protected by a predator-proof fence at Kīlauea Point National Wildlife Refuge.