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The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands include many atolls, and reefs. Due to Hawaii's isolation many mushroom species are endemic (unique to the island chain). In total the Hawaiian Islands comprise a total of 137 islands and atolls, with a total land area of 6,423.4 square miles (16,636.5 km 2). [1]
Pictures Hawaiian crow: Corvus hawaiiensis: Hawaii (island) and Maui Historically recorded on the island of Hawaii, where it was persecuted as a nuisance during the 19th century. Fossils indicate that this species or a very similar one was also found on Maui before European contact.
A herd of axis deer in Maui. Hawaii is the most isolated major land mass in the world and that isolation has led to very high rates of endemism.Uniquely adapted endemic species are often sensitive to competition from invasive species and Hawaii has had numerous extinctions (List of extinct animals of the Hawaiian Islands).
The Hawaiian hoary bat (Lasiurus semotus), [4] [5] also known as ʻōpeʻapeʻa, is a species of bat endemic to the islands of Hawaiʻi. [6] [7] The Hawaiian hoary bat occupies the major Hawaiian islands, making it the only extant and native terrestrial mammal in the islands.
The wildfire tore through the heart of the Hawaiian island of Maui in darkness Wednesday, reducing much of a historic town to ash and forcing people to jump into the ocean to flee the flames. At ...
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The Hawaiian island of Maui has been battered by a hurricane-propelled wildfire this week that has left dozens dead, a town destroyed and many others injured. With at least 36 dead, the Maui ...
In the tail end of the fires, photos of the burned but standing tree were posted online, which some saying it denotes the resilience of Hawaii and its residents. “Banyan Tree in Lahaina ...