The Public Review Draft Honolua to Honokohau Management Plan recommends healing and restoring the Kulaoka‘e‘a and Lipoa Point planning area’s natural and cultural resources.
WEST MAUI The state Department of Land & Natural Resources has prepared a draft management plan for state lands between Honolua Bay and Honokohau Bay in Wes
Hawaiʻi Wildlife Discovery Center in Whalers Village, Kaʻanapali Beach Resort in Lahaina opened on Wednesday. Explore over 30 exhibits on marine life, and Hawaiʻi's cultural ties to the ocean.
The Nature Conservancy conducting EAR research on spinner dolphins
By Staff | Jul 2, 2021
According to researchers, spinner dolphins rest during the day so they have energy to effectively hunt at night. Human interactions can disrupt resting dolphins, impact mothers tending to their young, or interrupt mating behavior, all of which could lead to a reduction in the size of the population. To gain a better understanding of how wildlife and humans use protected bays, underwater recording devices were deployed on Maui and Lanai to record sounds from marine mammals and boats. The devices were deployed by a coalition of conservation groups in partnership with government agencies to learn how to better protect marine life at Honolua-Mokule’ia and Manele-Hulopo’e Marine Life Conservation Districts (MLCDs).
The Whale Who Will Come Soon
A whale-watching trip is a voyage into the psychic dimensions of ocean in the 21st century
By Rebecca Giggs
The beachfront narrows to an ocherous ribbon, belted by blue, above and below. After a while, a handful of shearwaters appear in the air above the
Cat Balou. The birds flash around us; like knife-thrower tricks at a circus. Diving through the water, each is crowned in a diadem of bubbles. The shearwaters come from Antarctica, like the humpbacks, and also Siberia, South America, and Japan; they arrive in Australia, where they often die in large numbers from exhaustion. Such bird deaths, en masse, are known as “wreck events.” A single wreck event used to happen every ten years or so the result of irregular, rough weather overtaxing the birds’ reserves but flock-wide collapses occur almost biennially now, the feathered bodies washing up on the tideline, emaciated with hunger. Their prey are vanishing from the migration route as oceans warm.