Proposed changes by the Trump administration to the federal Endangered Species Act are raising alarm among conservationists working to save Hawaii’s plants and animals. While the current ...

Just 17 out of approximately 60 species of the iconic honeycreeper remain, most of which are facing rapid decline due to avian malaria. The findings, published in Current Biology, include new evidence ...

Long ago, Laysan finches, a native honeycreeper known for its brown and yellow plumage and varied songs, were found throughout the Hawaiian islands. Today, however, only about 18,000 of the endangered ...

Succulents grow on volcanic rock and sand at Hawaii Island’s Puuhonua o Honaunau National Park in this May 2022 photo. Hawaiians who broke Kapu laws had one chance for survival: swim through ...

HONOLULU (Island News) -- Hawaii's endangered and threatened species could face more challenges in the near future. The Trump administration reportedly plans to rewrite a part of the Endangered ...

SAN DIEGO — A decadeslong effort to save a critically endangered Hawaiian crow from extinction is taking a new strategy — relocating the birds to a different island than their historical home. And the ...

A Hawaiian monk seal and green sea turtle rest on a patch of coral in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands National Marine Sanctuary, a series of islands in northern Hawaii stretching from Nihoa Island ...