Lehua Island Restoration Project

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Monitoring Lehua Island After Dark

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 […]

Written by on June 24, 2020

Detection Dogs Deployed to Try and Find Remaining Few Rats on Lehua

  DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES DAVID Y. IGE GOVERNOR SUZANNE D. CASE CHAIRPERSON FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 17, 2018 RAT SNIFFING DOGS DEPLOYED TO TRY & FIND REMAINING FEW RATS ON LEHUA Specially Trained Border Terriers Spend Four Days Scouring the Island (Lihue) – Henry and Reese are six-year-old and three-year-old Border Terriers […]

Written by on June 18, 2018

Rat-Detecting Dogs Join Lehua Island Restoration Project Partnership; Localized Treatments Continue After a few Rats Caught on Camera 

DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES DAVID Y. IGE GOVERNOR SUZANNE D. CASE CHAIRPERSON Rat-detecting dogs sent to Lehua Island in search of any remaining invasive rodents. (LIHUE, KAUA’I) – Monitoring teams are observing more albatross on Lehua Island than they have in a long time. There’s also no sign of rats consuming plants or […]

Written by on April 9, 2018

Rapid Assessment Team Deployed to Lehua After Two Rodents Detected

DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES DAVID Y. IGE GOVERNOR SUZANNE D. CASE CHAIRPERSON FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 3, 2018 RAPID ASSESSMENT TEAM DEPLOYS TO LEHUA AFTER TWO RODENTS DETECTED Species & Origins of Animals Caught on Camera Unknown  (Lihue, Kaua‘i) – A rapid assessment team comprised of experts from Island Conservation (IC), the DLNR […]

Written by on January 3, 2018

Inconclusive Results from Examination of Lehua Fish

DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES DAVID Y. IGE GOVERNOR SUZANNE D. CASE CHAIRPERSON   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Nov. 27, 2017 PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF EXAMINATIONS OF LEHUA “MULLET” FISH ARE INCONCLUSIVE, FULL ANALYSIS OF ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLES FORTHCOMING. (HONOLULU) – As part of the Lehua Island Restoration Project, the USDA APHIS Wildlife Services/National Wildlife Research Center […]

Written by on November 27, 2017

Lehua Update: No Rats, Plenty Chicks

A month after the final stage of Operation Lehua, there are no signs of invasive rats on the island and plenty of seabird chicks. By: Jessica Else LIHUE — Not a single live rat has been reported on Lehua since the rat eradication project’s three aerial applications of rat poison in August and September. Instead, […]

Written by on October 16, 2017

Turning to Conservation Interventions: When the Status Quo Doesn’t Save Species

IC Restoration Specialist Mele Khalsa is featured in For Kauai explaining the need for conservation interventions to save endangered species. By: Mele Khalsa The Hawaiian Islands are the home to a wide diversity of unique species. Unfortunately, many of them are dying out before our very eyes. The native forest birds are succumbing to avian […]

Written by on October 12, 2017

Lehua Island Project is Safe, Necessary

Makaala Kaaumoana, originally from Kaneaohe and now a resident of Kilauea, explains why the eradication effort on Lehua Island is safe and necessary. By: Makaala Kaaumoana Aloha Kauai friends and neighbors, please hear my voice. No one cares more about the health of the Kauai than I do. My husband was born in Kilauea and his […]

Written by on September 14, 2017