Articles for tag: biodiversity, conservation, Hawaii, HawaiianWildlife, SpeciesAtRisk

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Could Hawaii Lose These 14 Species Forever?

Suhail Ahmed

On Hawaiʻi Island, a quiet line was crossed in March 2024 when federal biologists drew new boundaries around roughly one hundred nineteen thousand acres of forest, lava plain, and wind-blown coast. Those blue lines on a map signal an emergency: fourteen species, all found nowhere else, now ride the knife-edge between survival and silence. The ...