A new interagency monitoring report on Hawaiian forest birds indicates that remaining populations of at least two native endemic species of Maui forest birds are in rapid decline. The surveys conducted in the report were the largest and most comprehensive interagency effort to research East Maui native forest birds since 1980. The research – conducted […]
2017 MauiTime Year In Review
It’s been a helluva year, and that’s not a good thing. For the United States, the watchwords for 2017 have been violence and hatred–against women, African-Americans, immigrants, LGBTQ individuals and basically everyone who isn’t a straight white male. You don’t have to be a master at reading the room to know that greed and ignorance […]
UPDATED: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service now considers East Maui forest bird i`iwi a threatened species
Editor’s note: I updated this story on Sept. 26 to include a statement from Maui Forest Bird Recovery Project Coordinator Dr. Hanna Mounce. Though they once nested throughout Hawaii’s high mountain forests, the ‘i‘iwi–also known as the scarlet honeycreeper–is today pretty much only found in a narrow band of East Maui forests and the Big Island’s […]