Ecological Complex News Today

The announcement by Hawaiʻi Land Trust that 642 acres at Mahukona, North Kohala on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi has been protected capped off a year of conservation and legacy lands milestones in Hawaiʻi. 

After years of effort by many, including the late lineal descendant Aunty Patti-Ann Solomon, 642 acres of beloved — and historically, culturally and ecologically important — land in Māhukona is close to being protected forever.

Biologist Sofía Zalazar wasn’t born yet the last time a bare-faced curassow was seen in the Iberá forests in Argentina. The bird began disappearing from the wild in the 1970s, surviving only in small populations in forest areas in the provinces of Chaco and Formosa, in the northeast of the country. A couple of years […]