The nene, the world’s rarest goose, was once abundant across the Hawaiian Islands. Yet by the time it was listed in 1967 due to hunting and introduced predators, the nene teetered on the edge of ...

Roughly half a million years ago, a flock of Canada geese were blown off course and landed in Hawaiʻi, from which they evolved into three species including the Hawaiian goose. But hunting by ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to downlist the Hawaiian goose, or nene, from “endangered” to “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act. The state bird’s population ...

Mitigation measures would include acquiring land for conservation purposes, funding management of a Hawaiian goose breeding pen and funding research critical to understanding Hawaiian hoary bat ...

or Hawaiian goose) as well as Laysan albatross (moli) and the red-footed booby. From December to May, you might also be able to see humpback whales cavorting in the water nearby. One of Kaua'i's ...