#picture wing fly

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.

Endangered Hawaiian picture-winged flies play important role in ecosystem restoration

Scientists and researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and the DLNR Division of Forestry and Wildlife are working together to re-establish picture-winged fly populations, including of Drosophila hemipeza, an endangered species.

Lawsuit Filed to Protect Habitat for 14 Imperiled Hawai‘i Island Species

The Center for Biological Diversity today sued the Trump administration for allegedly “failing to protect critical habitat for 14 endangered Hawaiian species.”