Thread by @USFWSPacific

Hawai’i is the #EndangeredSpecies capital of the 🌎and May 17th is #EndangeredSpeciesDay. But through proactive #conservation efforts, hope and beauty 🌺 remain. Here is the week’s ABC’s of #SavingSpecies throughout the Pacific islands.

[Photo by David Sischo]

🅰️is for 🅰️uwahi Restoration

25% of Hawaiian endangered plant taxa are from dry forests. #Conservation agencies, volunteers, and landowners of ‘Ulupalakua Ranch are changing that future by planting these🌱at Auwahi

Read more: rebrand.ly/y8eko6
[Photo: M. Oppenheimer/PEPP]

🅱️ is for the Yellow-Faced 🅱️ee
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The first 🐝 to be federally listed as Endangered are Hawai’i’s endemic yellow-faced bees! The Service’s Coastal Program works with universities, the State, and community to protect them
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Read more: goo.gl/Pdtaao
Photo by J. Graham

C is for the Crows of the Marianas and Hawaiian islands
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The endangered ʻAlalā (Hawaiian crow) and Åga (Mariana crow) are native to Hawai’i and Guam that were once extinct in the wild but are being released back their forests‼️
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[Video of two released Åga by Andrew Zoechbauer]

D is for the Dry Forests
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Dry forests in Hawai’i are critical habitat for #EndangeredPlants. State, federal, and private landowners have partnered to protect them over the years! Kalaeloa NWR on O’ahu is a dry🌿forest🌿area, protecting the endangered ‘akoko and 'ewa hinahina!

E is for Endangered plants like Caly
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Meet Caly: a Cyanea calycina!
Caly meet everyone: the people rooting for you!
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Caly flowers once/yr & 🐤seek their nectar! Working w/@USGS, @uhmanoa, & @dlnr, U can 👀 her live: bit.ly/2WN0ETQ
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📷 Ryan Mudd/UHM

F is for Fences protecting our species!
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No offense, but de-fences work! Fences keeps invasive predators out and deter human disturbance. With #partners, we fund/build fences for snails, seabirds and yellow-faced 🐝!
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Read more on #endangered seabirds:
bit.ly/2WAzRtV

G is for Guam Kingfisher (Sihek)
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30 years ago the Sihek was almost driven to extinction by the brown tree snake🐍. Biologists saved a handful of birds by bringing them into captivity. Now over 100 birds strong💪 experts and partners are planning its hopeful return to the wild!

H is for Hawaiian petrel (‘Ua‘u)

The Endangered ‘Ua‘u is 1️⃣ of 2️⃣ Hawaiian endemic seabirds. In 2018 state, federal, and non-profit #ConservationPartners, translocated 20 chicks to a predator-proof fence at Kīlauea Point NWR and 19 fledged!💪

Photo: 'Ua'u chick by A. Raine/KESP

I is for ‘I’iwi and Honeycreepers

Out of the 50 species of honeycreepers once found in the Hawaiian Islands, only 17🐦species remain.

The threatened ‘i’iwi's primary source of food is the ʻōhiʻa lehua🌳flowers. Now #RapidOhiaDeath compromises these native forests #SavingSpecies

J is for getting the Job done❗️

Here in the Pacific there are many recovery projects to get involved in! Meet Becca Frager, one of our biologists who just completed a forest 🐦survey at Hakalau Forest #NationalWildlifeRefuge!🌿

Read her experience here: rebrand.ly/czmzrs

K is for Kāhuli (snails)

In Hawaiian oral history the Kāhuli are voices of the forest, singing as they travel up and down trees.🌳60% of these voices dimmed, but with partners like @dlnr Snail Extinction Prevention Program, we can keep kāhuli🐌voices ringing

Photo: David Sischo

Thanks for tuning in to the ABC's of #SavingSpecies!🎶Next time won't you conserve with us?🎶
Thank you to all our partners on #EndangeredSpecies

'A'ohe hana nui ke alu 'ia
No task is too big when done together by all
#AsianPacificAmericanHeritageMonth

Photo: M. Sullivan/NOAA