Fungi Connectors Underground: What Palmyra Atoll Is Teaching Us About How Island Ecosystems Recover
A new study reveals the role fungi play in the restoration and recovery of rare, resilient atoll ecosystems!
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Exploring the Marquesas Islands
Marquesas: Part Two. By: Richard Griffiths Kaoha nui! The team recently spent three days on Eiao and Hatuta’a, Marquesas Islands. They are fascinating places to visit. Eiao, where Steve, David and I spent my time, is 5,600ha and probably one of the largest uninhabited islands of the Pacific. Yet, the island has been extensively modified […]
Palmyra, Minus the Rats: Conservationists Revisit Pacific Atoll Five Years After Intervention
Five years after the removal of invasive rats, conservationists return to Palmyra Atoll. Almost three weeks have passed since our team of five conservationists arrived on Palmyra Atoll. This tropical atoll, one of the Line Islands 1,000 miles south of Hawaii, was once overrun with invasive rats. Thankfully for us and the rest of the walking, […]