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The University of Hawai‘i Institute for Marine Biology is winding up a five-year visitor capacity study on Hanauma Bay on Oʻahu. Researchers are comparing data from before, during and after the ninth-month closure from March to December 2020 during the coronavirus pandemic.

The Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary reports numerous mother and calf pairs in Hawai‘i waters. Here are some tips for how to keep the whales, and yourself, safe.

A female nēnē was struck and killed by a car on Haleakalā Highway in Kahului this week. Here are some tips from the state Department of Land and Natural Resources on how to keep the endemic birds safe.

U.S. Rep. Ed Case, a former Hawaiʻi DLNR director, and a conservation director discuss efforts to protect Kaʻena Point and reflect on changes to the popular recreation area.

U.S. Rep. Ed Case, a former Hawaiʻi DLNR director, and a conservation director discuss efforts to protect Kaʻena Point and reflect on changes to the popular recreation area.

The Conversation paid a visit to the Kanaloa Octopus Farm to understand its place at the Natural Energy Laboratory on the island of Hawaiʻi. There is a synergy between aquaculture facilities, some of which rear marine creatures for food. But the octopus farm is not one of them. Instead, eco-tours and conservation science are its focus.

A live ball python was turned into the Honolulu Zoo Wednesday afternoon under the state's Amnesty Program.

If there are seahorse whisperers, well Kona is where you might find them. The Ocean Rider Seahorse Farm and Seahorse Foundation at the Natural Energy Laboratory has been around for two-and-a-half decades. The clean cool ocean waters are key to rearing the native species, as well as the unusual leafy sea dragons.

It can also be a traumatizing event for pets. The loud, explosive sounds from firecrackers and aerials that have been going off in some neighborhoods since Halloween have spooked cats and dogs, causing many families to report missing pets as a result.

Manu Minute host Patrick Hart discussed different solutions to help the plight of our feathered friends. He hopes Hawaiʻi can get landscape-scale mosquito control in place before the birds decline so much that there's nothing left to save.