Chris Yuen has been the Big Island member of the Board of Land and Natural Resources since 1990. His second term will expire on June 30. Recently, Environment Hawai`i met with Yuen to discuss his views and experiences on the … Continued
Village Park Concerns Demand Further Investigation Consider this: Barely three in a hundred requests for suspected cancer cluster investigations ever result in the kind of in-depth studies needed to determine whether the suspicions have any scientific basis. The likelihood that … Continued
In the 2,000 households of the leeward O’ahu town of Village Park, parents have more than the usual worries about mortgages, car payments, and schools. For the last four years, dozens of them have become alarmed over what they say … Continued
Deputy Attorney General Undercuts Board Decision on State Land at Onomea For years, advocates of coastal access in the area of Onomea, on the eastern side of the Big Island, have been awaiting resolution of a dispute over ownership of … Continued
Back in 1983, a state panel advised that pregnant women and women planning to become pregnant be warned to “avoid all sources of water known to be contaminated with DBCP at any level.” The panel — the Subcommittee on Health … Continued
At this writing, the world’s population of Po`ouli consists of three birds, scattered over about half a square mile of dense, high-elevation rainforest in the Hanawi area of East Maui. The home range of each bird covers little more than … Continued
When wildlife managers try to rescue a bird whose numbers are critically low, the risks are high and choices are few. Dealing with endangered species that are more abundant, even if still rare, takes off much of the pressure. Consider … Continued
In her comments on the draft environmental assessment outlining options for the Po`ouli, Sheila Conant, professor of biology at the University of Hawai`i and a well-known expert on Hawaiian birds, favors the no-action alternative. “The only other alternative I would … Continued
The Peregrine Fund operates the only two captive-bird propagation facilities in the state of Hawai`i: one at Olinda, Maui, which until March 1996 had been operated by the state; the second on Bishop Estate’s Keauhou Ranch, near the Big Island … Continued
If the Po`ouli does not recover, it will become another statistic giving force to an increasingly accepted notion among biologists that the Earth is on the verge of a massive species meltdown. And, according to this notion, the oceanic islands, … Continued