The Waikoloa Hilton parking lot is full of cats. Signs around the lot ask that visitors not feed them, as they are being cared for by AdvoCATS, a Kona group that, according to its website, helps “abandoned and homeless felines.” … Continued
Blue states and red states were the subject of a talk by Jack Mayer of the Savannah River National Laboratory in Aiken, South Carolina. But Mayer wasn’t discussing partisan politics. Rather, he was discussing the spread of wild pigs. On … Continued
Rewriting the Family Tree: In a development made possible only with the latest techniques in DNA sequencing, researchers at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute’s Center for Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics have tracked down the ancestor of Hawaiian honeycreepers, those birds … Continued
Last month, The Wildlife Society, a national association made up mostly of specialists in the area of wildlife research and management, held its annual convention at the Waikoloa resort, on the Big Island. Over the four days of discussions and … Continued
“When I talk about rat lungworm, I immediately get people’s attention,” said Jon Martell, a Hilo physician and one of the speakers at a recent community symposium on the subject. “It touches on their fundamental fears and ‘ick’ factors,” he … Continued
Too many boats. Too few tuna. In the Western and Central Pacific Ocean, the rights of countries to catch fish have outrun the fish’s ability to keep up. With no one willing to give ground, the result is a giant … Continued
The state’s management scheme for game mammals is in serious need of an overhaul and recently proposed revisions to hunting rules are only a minor improvement, conservationists say. But instead of merely lifting bag and season limits in certain sensitive … Continued
Court Gets Forest City Appeal: The Queen Lili`uokalani Trust has appealed the decision of the state Land Use Commission approving the Kona project known as Kamakana Villages, to be developed by the Hawai`i Housing and Finance Development Corporation and Forest … Continued
It may get even harder for renewable energy projects to hook up to electricity grids on O`ahu, Maui, and Hawai`i if a proposal by the utilities on those islands wins state approval. The utilities say they are just trying to … Continued
Within the next few weeks, a judge in federal Bankruptcy Court in Honolulu may decide the fate of a company that is logging thousands of tons of sandalwood from lands high above Kealakekua Bay, in what was once one of … Continued