Being a punk in Hawaiʻi is a hard-knock life. Just ask Shawn “Speedy” Lopes. It's been his life and includes getting jumped outside of bars. Now it's the subject of a new book.
Christa Seidl is with the Maui Forest Bird Recovery Project. She was a doctoral student at the University of California, Santa Cruz when she started analyzing blood samples for more than 4,000 birds across the state. HPR spoke to Seidl about what she found.