New Study Debunks 50-Year Myth About Hawaiʻi’s Native Bird Extinctions

A new study challenges a decades-old assumption about the loss of Hawaiʻi’s native waterbirds. Challenging a half-century-old explanation for the loss of Hawaiʻi’s native birds, a new study from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa reports that there is no scientific evidence showing Indigenous People hunted waterbird species to extinction. Published in the journal Ecosphere, [...]