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According to DLNR botanist Matt Kier, Hawaiʻi has the highest number of endangered plants compared to any other state — with over 400 species. The plants need urgent and direct intervention to have any chance of survival.
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The University of Hawaiʻi is growing a native plant in nurseries to prevent the species from going extinct. The Ka palupalu o Kanaloa was last sighted in the wild in 2015 on Kahoʻolawe.
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Spiders that look like clowns, lost their ability to spin a web, and have curly tails — Hawaiʻi has them all. More than 200 species of spiders live in the islands and half of them are found nowhere else in the world.
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The Kamehameha butterfly was once found on all the main Hawaiian Islands. But researchers say the insect, which is found only in the state of Hawaii, is…