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Hawaii Land Trust — in partnership with Na Kalai Wa‘a; federal, state and county agencies; and the Kohala community — has completed its largest purchase, permanently protecting 642 acres of land at Mahukona on Hawaii island, the nonprofit announced last week.
From up above, the water at Kealia Pond National Wildlife Refuge in South Maui appears to be bright pink — as pink as bubble gum or a Barbie play set.
The last post and bolt were installed Tuesday, marking the completion of an 11,200- foot-long predator exclusion fence on Kauai after a year and a half of construction.
It took a 2020 federal lawsuit and a court order to push them into action, but the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have proposed designating 1,183 acres of beaches within the main Hawaiian islands and 1,050 acres within the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands as critical habitats for Hawaii’s endangered green sea turtle.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA Fisheries are proposing to designate more than 2,000 acres of nesting and basking beaches in Hawaii as critical habitat for the threatened green sea turtle.