Earthjustice uses the ESA to protect Hawai‘i’s many vulnerable species.

Steller’s sea cow was the first to disappear after a voyage of discovery accelerated a wave of extinction in North America. The tiny palila bird was the first to benefit from Earthjustice’s use of a law passed to end the extinctions.

All told, Mike Sherwood figures that he and his colleagues have had a hand in protecting around 700 species.

Removal of grazing mammals that destroy endangered bird habitat to resume

The palila—a bird endemic to Hawaiʻi—depends on the native Hawaiian dry land forest, particularly mamane trees, for food, shelter and breeding, and the destruction of mamane forests by sheep and goats and other browsing animals in the early twentieth century prompted a sharp decline in palila numbers and habitat. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service…

Challenging the Hawai`i State Department of Land and Natural Resources for failing to comply with three federal court orders issued to stop the state’s illegal “take” of the critically endangered palila bird on Hawai`i Island.

State’s violation of three court orders contributes to drastic decline

Groups call on DLNR to follow court orders to protect critically endangered birds