A 300-pound, approximately 50 year -old green old sea turtle who was originally located on French Frigate Shoals has found her way to the north shore of Kauai. Authorities were notified of the turtle’s presence on the beach by Angelica Mia, a concerned citizen who spotted the turtle on Wednesday, and made a phone call.
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PRESS RELEASE
County of Kaua’i
County officials received word Tuesday that the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) closed the re-evaluation period on the modifications to the Wailua Beach portion of Ke Ala Hele Makalae, the multi-use coastal path, and concurs with the County that the proposed changes are not substantive in size, scope, intensity, use, location and timing.
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The Associated Press is reporting that four environmental groups say they plan to sue the St. Regis Princeville Resort here on Kaua’i if the hotel doesn’t take action to prevent ongoing deaths of rare native seabirds.
The groups Wednesday said the hotel has failed to dim artificial lights and lower window shades to protect the birds, [...]

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The Kauai watershed is the world’s most extreme botanical garden, a 144,000-acre cloud forest along jagged cliffs that can spike 3,000 feet in elevation over just a quarter of a mile. So when Nature Conservancy of Hawaii project director Trae Menard observed that the area had been invaded by millions of water- sucking, plant-strangling Australian [...]

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