Hawaiian mountains provide the perfect habitat for these small ... nonprofit conservation organization with more than 1.7 million members and online activists dedicated to the protection of endangered ...

Hawaii is seeing an uptick in the number of opossums stowing away to the Islands. The animals are non-native to the Islands and illegal, and if not caught, they could cause devastating impacts to the ...

HONOLULU— In response to litigation from the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today designated 119,326 acres as protected critical habitat for 11 plants and a ...

When the Endangered Species Act was passed in 1973, Hawaii was already considered one of the extinction capitals of the world. The last summary of Hawaiian plant taxonomy had been published in 1888.

SAN DIEGO — A decadeslong effort to save a critically endangered Hawaiian crow from ... The ‘alalā is the only surviving native crow species in Hawaii. Its decline is blamed on a loss of ...

Hawaii is home to 578 species protected under the Endangered Species Act, with many found nowhere else in the world. The 44 species covered in the draft plan are listed as endangered under the act ...

The last wild Hawaiian crows were spotted on Hawaii island in 2002, however, subfossil records show they were once prevalent on Maui. Remaining alala are in conservation breeding facilities, and ...