enow.com Web Search

  1. Ads

    related to: big island hawaii wildlife

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Big Island National Wildlife Refuge Complex - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Island_National...

    The Big Island National Wildlife Refuge Complex is a protected wildlife refuge administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service located on Hawaiʻi Island (commonly known as the Big Island) in the state of Hawaii. [1] It consists of Hakalau Forest on the windward side of Mauna Kea and Kona Forest on the western side of Mauna Loa. [2]

  3. Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakalau_Forest_National...

    In 1997, the Fish and Wildlife Service purchased an additional 5,300 acres (21 km 2) of land to create the Kona Forest Unit of Hakalau Forest NWR. The Kona Forest Unit includes lands within the Hoʻokena and Kalahiki land divisions on the western slopes of Mauna Loa , at elevations of 2,000–6,000 ft (610–1,830 m).

  4. Alakaʻi Wilderness Preserve - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alakaʻi_Wilderness_Preserve

    A 2002 study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences compared the resilience of three ecosystems critical for the conservation of the remaining endemic bird species in Hawaii—the Hakalau National Wildlife Refuge on Big Island, the Hanawi Forest on Maui, and the Alakaʻi Swamp on Kaua’i.

  5. List of birds of Hawaii - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_birds_of_Hawaii

    The scope of this list encompasses the entire Hawaiian Islands chain, from Kure Atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands to the north, to the "Big Island" of Hawaii to the south. The list contains 337 species. Of them, 64 are or were endemic to the islands, 130 are vagrants and 52 were introduced by humans.

  6. Mauna Kea silversword - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauna_Kea_silversword

    Argyroxiphium sandwicense subsp. sandwicense, the Mauna Kea silversword, [1] is a highly endangered flowering plant endemic to the island of Hawaiʻi (Big Island) of Hawaii. It is the "crown jewel" [2] of the volcanic mountain Mauna Kea, from which it derives its English name. The Hawaiian name is ʻahinahina; it applies to silverswords more ...

  7. Tropical Storm Hone steadily approaches Hawaii, threatening ...

    www.aol.com/news/hawaiis-big-island-under...

    The eastern and southeastern parts of the Big Island could get 5 to 10 inches (11 to 25 centimeters) of rain. The island could get sustained winds of 20 to 40 mph (32 to 64 kph) and gusts near 60 ...

  1. Ads

    related to: big island hawaii wildlife