What is The Peregrine Fund? According to its own publications, TPF was formed in 1970, when Tom Cade, a professor of ornithology at Cornell University, decided something needed to be done to save the peregrine falcon from extinction. Five years … Continued
Koa in some of the best `alala habitat in South Kona may soon be harvested, but, according to an agent of the landowners, far from the project harming `alala, it is being done actually to improve the birds’ habitat. The … Continued
Helen Baker is a researcher at the Olinda Endangered Species Facility who has been working for the last two years on nene and on a multi-year project whose eventual outcome was to have been the introduction to the wild of … Continued
Water Commission’s Performance Is Faulted by State Auditor The state auditor, Marion Higa, reports that her office found “serious problems” in the efforts of the Water Commission to carry out the requirements of the state Water Code, Chapter 174C of … Continued
By Patricia Tummons In June 1979, John Mink, a hydrologist under contract to Maui Land & Pineapple Company, conducted a series of water quality tests. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had asked for the tests to determine if a chemical … Continued
At the moment, Hawai`i is in the throes of transition between plantation agriculture and diversified agriculture. Plantation agriculture left its mark on the state’s groundwater supplies, but it is not clear that the legacy of diversified agriculture will be any … Continued
Onomea Botanical Garden Gets Land Board OK for Expansion The Board of Land and Natural Resources has granted the Hawai`i Tropical Botanical Garden of Onomea, on the Big Island, a Conservation District Use Permit for several of improvements it has … Continued
In 1975, the Del Monte pineapple plantation on O`ahu made a fateful change in its management of soil fumigants. Until that time, the plantation had purchased the fumigants — used to control root nematodes — in metal drums, typically containing … Continued