The first ever Newell’s Shearwater chick to hatch within the Nihoku exclosure The Nihoku Ecosystem Restoration Project aims to create a new breeding site safe from introduced predators for two threatened seabirds on the Hawaiian island on Kauai. The...
resulting in the first predator-free breeding colony of this species.” The predator-proof fence erected as part of the Nihoku Ecosystem Restoration Project on the island of Kauai to create a safe breeding space for translocated Newell’s Shearwaters and...
Sus scrofa domesticus. “We are heartbroken to share that 64 mōlī [Laysan Albatross] eggs were crushed or eaten by pigs on Nihoku beginning on 22 December. Trail cameras documented the pigs, and we were alerted of the events by our partners the next day....
census. Since 2009, the colony has more than quadrupled in size”. The first translocated Newell’s Shearwater to return to Nihoku; photograph from Pacific Rim Conservation On another Hawaiian island, Kauai, the first translocated Newell’s Shearwater...
Point Natural Area Reserve and the James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge) and elsewhere within the Kilauea Point NWR at Nihoku. News from Pacific Rim Conservation and Wild Times, newsletter of Friends of Kaua’i Wildlife Refuges for December 2021. John...
The first translocated Hawaiian Petrel returns to Nihoku in May 2020, trail camera photograph by the Nihokū Ecosystem Restoration Project ACAP Latest News has regularly reported on the efforts to establish a breeding colony of Endangered Hawaiian...
Hawaiian Petrel Pterodroma sandwichensis within a predator-proof fence on the Hawaiian island of Kauai as part of the Nihoku Ecosystem Restoration Project. An extract from the chapter’s Introduction follows: “The Critically Endangered Newell’s...
The translocated chicks were placed in artificial burrows within a specially built predator-proof fence at the coastal Nihoku Ecosystem Restoration Project site within the Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge. “First Flight: Hawaiian Petrels Journey...
Recovery Project. Twelve downy chicks were transferred to their new home within the predator-proof fence at the coastal Nihoku Ecosystem Restoration Project site with a further eight chicks collected the next day and placed in artificial burrows. For...
new, safe nesting sites for them on high-islands by creating 'mainland islands'. Our two current flagship projects are the Nihoku Ecosystem Restoration Project at Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge on the island of Kaua‘i and the Albatross...