Nearly 60 years after a group of Boy Scouts carried 35 nene down into Haleakala Crater, Hawaii’s state bird has made a comeback — enough so that the federal government has down-listed the nene from ...
HONOLULU The nene, Hawaii s state bird, is no longer listed as endangered, but remains a point of concern for environmentalists wary of changes to the U.S. Endangered Species Act. That milestone, the ...
U.S. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt announced Sunday in a ceremony at Honouliuli that the nene, Hawaii’s state bird, has been “downlisted” from an endangered species to a threatened species under ...
Haleakala National Park marks its annual Nene Awareness Day on Wednesday with special activities and talks about “the world’s most endangered geese.” Events are scheduled for 10 a.m. to noon at Hosmer ...
LIHUE (HawaiiNewsNow) - A Kauai man, who used a pellet gun to shoot at and ultimately kill four nene birds, was ordered Thursday to pay more than $40,000 in fines. Kauai prosecuting attorney Justin ...
WAIKOLOA, Hawaii (KITV4) -- A video of Nene geese eating cat food left out in Waikoloa spurred backlash on social media this week, with some calling on the cat feeders to remove their feeding stations ...
Your parents probably told you that there’s no substitute for the best — and the United States government found that out when they ran into a problem. When wildlife and people begin to encroach on ...
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Slow down, especially in known nene goose breeding grounds. That’s the message from Hawaii Volcanoes National Park officials after three birds were killed on Hawaii Island.
RICHMOND, Va. -- The Sylvan Heights Bird Park features over 2000 birds and is designed to give all of their visitors an up-close experience with their wildlife! Bird park aviculturist, Kat joins us to ...
HAWAII (KHON2) — Officials at the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park are urging everyone to watch out for nene. Officials said that a nene was hit by a vehicle on Chain of Craters Road and that the driver ...
Hawaii’s state bird is making a comeback. The nene (prounounced “nay-nay”) dwindled to fewer than 100 birds in the wild; today that number is greater than 3,000. Earlier in December, the native goose ...
Nene geese and three goslings take a stroll at the James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge near Kahuku. The nene were first observed on Oahu around Jan. 9, 2014. “We love an Endangered Species Act ...