Animals

Maui's The Spirit Horse Ranch started a therapy program after the pandemic. It also helped Maui fire survivors navigate shock and loss. HPR's Catherine Cluett Pactol reports the program has now expanded to Molokaʻi.

The crews will be injecting about 800 trees with an insecticide, and those trees will serve as a barrier to protect the dense groves of palm trees in urban Honolulu.

A non-venomous ball python snake was captured in the backyard of an Oʻahu residence on Sunday night.

The Center for Biological Diversity is suing the military for details on a proposal to build a rocket test site in a remote wildlife refuge less than 900 miles from Hawaiʻi Island.

Tom Givnish, botanist and professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, spoke with The Conversation’s Maddie Bender about his new research into lobeliads.

Sheep and goats have been used to clear flammable grasses in Hawaiʻi. They mostly do such “prescribed grazing” at solar farms, but can it work closer to people? HPR’s Mark Ladao reports on a pilot project in East Oʻahu that's looking to find out.

Since October, volunteers have been meeting every Thursday evening in Waimānalo to hike around in the dark and capture coqui frogs.

Dr. Barbara Natterson-Horowitz is a professor of medicine at UCLA and a faculty member at Harvard University who studies “species-spanning medicine,” a field that draws inspiration from animals to improve human health. HPR talked to her about what we can learn from animals.

Research is underway that looks at the health of migratory whales. Specifically, what can be learned from whale poop. HPR's Maddie Bender reports on what was found in the research.

This weekend, we celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Manu O Kū Festival. The Conversation spoke with Rich Downs of Hui Manu-O-Kū and Keith Swindle, executive director of the Hawaiʻi Audubon Society, about the significance of this endearing seabird that has thrived on Oʻahu.