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Island Conservation
Conservation fieldwork on explosive-ridden, ecologically and culturally rich Kaho’olawe Island is as rewarding as it is challenging. Everyone in Hawaii knows Kaho’olawe Island is littered with unexploded ordnance (a.k.a. bombs). For anybody who doesn’t know, the island was used as a bombing test site by the U.S. military from 1941-1990. But leftover ordnance is not the only problem […]
Island Conservation turns 30! Three decades of work add up to an immeasurable number of positive impacts.
Island Conservation, Re:wild, and UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, along with a growing cadre of Island-Ocean Connection Challenge (IOCC) partners are excited to announce the first eight island-ocean ecosystems selected to be restored and rewilded from ridge-to-reef. FOR RELEASE: Tuesday, April 11, 2023 Climate change, ocean degradation, and biodiversity loss are causing entire […]
Island Conservation’s Mele Khalsa recently returned from a night-time monitoring trip on Lehua Island, Hawaii with incredible news about the future of the island ecosystem. Island Conservation staffer Mele Khalsa has been visiting Lehua Island, off the coast of Kauai, for years, but a recent night-time monitoring trip was something special. Mele reported: I got to […]
New video footage captured from the UK Overseas Territory of Gough Island in the South Atlantic shows mice attacking adult albatross. Warning: Graphic video. Viewer Discretion is Advised. Last year a study, published by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, found that invasive mice are responsible for two million fewer seabird chicks on […]
The remote nature of Midway Atoll and the restriction of artificial light makes for a night of beautiful, bright stars. Midway Atoll is a place where the sky never turns black, not even in middle of the night when stars seem endless. While the Atoll is undoubtedly an amazing place: tons of seabird species, the […]
The start of fall means Black-footed and Laysan Albatross are beginning to return to Midway for yet another breeding season. After a long hot summer, seemingly endless days of the sun beating down upon Midway’s islands, fall feels right around the corner. For just a brief period, Midway is largely void of nearly all seabirds. […]
Control efforts on Midway Atoll have helped protect native wildlife from invasive predatory mice, but removing the mice is the only way save the world’s largest Laysan Albatross colony. This was something we had never expected to occur. Mice preying on adult albatrosses simply hasn’t been recorded here.” – US Fish and Wildlife Service From […]
Midway’s native plant and animal diversity have thrived for decades even in the face of human impacts, but now invasive mice are threatening the delicate balance. Mention of Midway Atoll brings to mind myriads of birds. But, there’s more to Midway. Known as Pihemanu (“loud din of birds” in Hawaiian), Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge […]
Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge is biologically, culturally, and historically significant but the atoll is in need of restoration. Since the start of gristly invasive mouse attacks on albatross out on Midway Atoll, this small set of islands—tucked at the far end of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands—has entered the spotlight again. Many connote Midway with […]