Rooted in both science and emotion, these stories explore the fragile balance between species, landscapes, and people, looking closer at the tension between beauty and vulnerability in changing environments.
Holding the Mosquito Line: Maui’s Fight to Save Its Honeycreepers
An inside look at Maui’s landscape-scale mosquito suppression efforts to protect Hawaiʻi’s endangered honeycreepers from avian malaria and climate-driven extinction.
Sharing the Canopy: Building Skills to Protect Honolulu’s White Terns
Honolulu’s urban canopy supports one of Hawaiʻi’s most visible native seabirds: the manu o Kū, or White Tern. This story follows the collaborative effort to train arborists, students, and conservation partners in wildlife-aware tree care practices that help protect nesting birds within the city’s urban forest.
A Song Returns to Kuaihelani: The Laysan Finch Translocation of 2025
In July 2025, the song of the Laysan Finch returned to Kuaihelani (Midway Atoll) for the first time in eighty years. This story follows the collaborative translocation effort to restore an endangered Hawaiian bird to its ancestral home.
From Data to Dialogue: Students Use GIS to Bring Hawaiʻi's Birds to Life
In early 2025, four Worcester Polytechnic Institute students traveled to Hawaiʻi to create ArcGIS StoryMaps on native Hawaiian birds and seabird conservation — blending science, storytelling, and technology to bring conservation education to new audiences.
Conservation Dogs of Hawaiʻi - A Bird’s Best Friend, too?
Conservation Dogs of Hawaiʻi trains scent-detection dogs to find downed seabirds during fallout season and detect invasive species across the islands — a groundbreaking approach to conservation that proves the canine nose may be one of Hawaiʻi's most powerful tools for protecting native wildlife.