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Hawaii Audubon Society
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MISSION STATEMENT: To foster community values that result in the protection and restoration of native ecosystems and conservation of natural resources through education, science and advocacy in Hawaii and the Pacific.
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Endangered birds and farmers battle for Hanalei taro
(Hawaii News Now, Apr 27, 2012)
aro has been a staple in Hawaiian food for generations. Native birds love to eat it as well but some Kauai farmers say there's not enough to go around.
Farmers say the nene or Hawaiian Goose eats the root. And the Hawaiian Moorhen and Hawaiian Coot eat the stalk and leaf. Since last year farmers say they've lost up to half a million pounds of kalo or taro.
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife says the land has been a wildlife refuge since 1972. Farmers knew when they signed the permit the land is for the birds and some degradation is possible. That is also why the farmers that live on the land don't pay any rent. They pay just $25 a year per acre to use the land to plant their crops.
Wedge-tailed Shearwater Chick
Download our current newsletter,
`Elepaio - Journal of the Hawaii Audubon Society:
May/June 2012 (1.1 MB, pdf)
- Conjoined-nesting of the Laysan Finch
- HAS Awards for Student Research
- Raising the `Auku`u
Endangered Hawaiian goose rebounds, now relocated
(The Gardenisland.com, May 09, 2012)
Hawaii's state bird was once so endangered, there were just 30 left on the planet
Now, the Aloha State is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to move hundreds of geese away from runways at the airport in the Garden Island of Kauai.
...It's an unusual problem for Hawaii, where nearly all native birds are in danger of becoming extinct. The small island state is home to one-third of the nation's endangered avian species.