Final draft

Wildlife Hawaii

            People of Hawaii are contributing their time, money, and effort for a cleaner and longer sustained wildlife. They want to enhance, protect, manage and conserve Hawaii’s natural and limited cultural and historic resources for current and future visitors as well as its own people. With the public and private places partnering, trust for a better future is ensured.

Hawaii is made up of 2million acres of land and 1.2 million acres of state owned land. It also is a beautiful place, but leaving it alone and not caring for its reputation the same. Hawaii has many beautiful flowers and native plants that are so little to be seen everywhere. We can find these vegetations in tropical forests and trails. Wild pigs and goats are destroying Hawaii’s land. They like to dig holes in the ground at native forests and mountainside vegetation. Wild pigs and goats isn’t all you can find in Hawaii.

Hawaii has many varieties of different animal life. Even though it lacks land mammals, it is made up of more birds, insects, and ocean dwellers. There is approximately 44 animals and 273 plants that is endangered and many of them close to extinction. Among the birds found here, most are endangered. Some of them include the Hawaiian duck, Hawaiian Coot, and lysan albatross. Hawaii has only two native mammals left, the Hawaiian monk seal, and the Hawaiian hoary bat. Overtime, population drops because these species are hardly anywhere to be found, also it doesn’t produce more of its own. Seeing a Hawaiian animal is something rare to find everyday. What protects this wildlife is it’s home. We have to stop destroying or cutting down the natural forests and ecosystems. Letting this happen will surely increase extinction time for the native animals.

Many organizations are volunteering to protect these Hawaiian animals. To protect endangered birds, Hawaii has made a program called Hawaii’s Endangered Bird Conservation Program. What this program does is that they try to take out predators and parasites. This will protect them by not having to be a meal by other animals. Doing this doesn’t also protect birds, but also other wildlife such as different mammals and plants. The U.S. and Hawaiian government has also enforced strict hunting laws, educating, and working with private land owners and organizations. These laws will play against those who involve with these ecosystems. Similar rules and regulation also were made for the Hawaiian Monk seal. Keeping visitors or people from killing, disturbing, and swimming with them

We have to continue to protect what we have if we want Hawaii to stay natural and beautiful to all people. If people, predators, or other natural killing species doesn’t destroy Hawaii, then the climate changes will. We need to stay alert to what happens in these islands.