Island Conservation
Television special documents Lehua Island Restoration Project. (HONOLULU) – The recent project aimed at eradicating invasive rats from the State of Hawai‘i’s Seabird Sanctuary on Lehua Island is the subject of a half-hour long TV documentary that chronicles the operation from beginning to end. Scheduled for broadcast on KFVE-TV (K5) on Saturday, Oct. 21st and Sunday, […]
Invasive rats appear to be gone from Lehua Island after officials conducted a restoration project to protect threatened seabirds. By: Jan TenBruggencate The `iwa or Great Frigatebird swept low over a cluster of trucks, stacks of equipment and a Jet Ranger helicopter on the northern end of Niihau. As I followed its black-winged form with […]
Documentary detailing the efforts to restore Lehua Island to a seabird safe haven will air Saturday and Sunday October 21st and 22nd 2017. By: Jessica Else LIHUE — The state’s account of the project to rid Lehua of invasive rats will be aired on KFVE-TV (K5) in a half-hour documentary this weekend. The program was […]
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, […]
DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES DAVID Y. IGE GOVERNOR SUZANNE D. CASE CHAIRPERSON FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 16, 2017 TELEVISION SPECIAL DOCUMENTS LEHUA ISLAND RESTORATION PROJECT Lehua Island: Restoration of a Tropical Bird Paradise (HONOLULU) – The recent project aimed at eradicating invasive rats from the State of Hawai‘i’s Seabird Sanctuary on Lehua Island […]
Hob Osterlund explains why removing invasive rats from Lehua is vital to the conservation of native Hawaiian seabirds. By: Hob Osterlund Lehua is a tiny uninhabited crescent-shaped Hawaiian Island about eighteen miles southwest of Kauai. Steep, sparsely vegetated and about three hundred acres in size, most people have never heard of it, much less visited. […]
DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES DAVID Y. IGE GOVERNOR SUZANNE D. CASE CHAIRPERSON FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sept. 5, 2017 INVESTIGATION UNDERWAY REGARDING LEHUA ISLAND FISH & BIRD DEATHS (Honolulu) – The Department of Land and Natural Resources, Island Conservation, and other Lehua Island Restoration Project partners became aware of social media posts, photos […]
DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES DAVID Y. IGE GOVERNOR SUZANNE D. CASE CHAIRPERSON FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 30, 2017 SECOND APPLICATION OF RODENTICIDE ON LEHUA ISLAND COMPLETE Visual Observations Show No Impact to Marine Resources (Li‘hue, Kaua‘i) – The second scheduled aerial application of a rodenticide to eliminate invasive rats from the State […]
Kaua’i resident Michael DeMotta articulates the need for restoration on Lehua Island, Hawai’i. By: Michael DeMotta Offshore islets surrounding the main Hawaiian Islands are sanctuaries for many native species. Often, they are insulated against the influences that have caused native coastal ecosystems to collapse on the main islands. The harshness of the windswept and salty […]
Conservation efforts could return Lehua Island to the safe nesting habitat it once was for the Bulwer’s Petrel and many other native Hawaiian seabirds. Soaring over the sea to nest on remote islands, the Bulwer’s Petrel is a seabird spread throughout the world, from the Azores Islands, Portugal to Lehua Island, Hawai’i. The small gray bird […]