HAWAII VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK – Hundreds of scientists, students and Hawaiian cultural practitioners are storming Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park this weekend to participate in the BioBlitz, as well as the Biodiversity & Cultural Festival.
According to a joint HVNP and National Geographic media release:
During the free, two-day event, teams of scientists, Hawaiian cultural practitioners, students, and the public will join forces to discover and inventory as many living plants and creatures as possible in the 333,086-acre national park. Expert-led inventory teams will be dispatched throughout the park to explore the biodiversity that thrives in recent lava flows and native rain forests, from the coastline to the summit of Kīlauea volcano. Entrance fees are waived both days.
Themed I ka nānā no a ’ike (“by observing, one learns”), the Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park BioBlitz will be part scientific endeavor, part cultural festival, and part outdoor classroom. It will provide unique opportunities to work alongside leading experts to discover, count, and document the living creatures in the park; to contribute to the park’s official species list; to explore the interconnectedness of plants, animals, the environment, traditional people, and our daily lives; and to help protect the extraordinary biodiversity and rich culture found in Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park.
BioBlitz “base camp” and the festival grounds will be located next to the Kīlauea Visitor Center, located in the park in Volcano, Hawaii.
Entrance fees were waived for both days of the BioBlitz and festival, Friday and Saturday, May 15 and 16.
Public Affairs Specialist Jessica Ferracane told us all about the big day in advance of the event. The park service produced a video promoting the event.
“Hawaiian Cultural practitioners” ? Polynesians were awful to the ecosystem of these islands. What are they going to do, show how to kill the birds? The Polynesians were responsible for mass extinctions in these Islands after their colonization/invasion of Hawaii. 32 bird species, of which 17 flightless birds were killed and eaten to extinction. search: 17 flightless birds of Hawaii.
No there needs to be NO cultural practitioners allowed to take part in anything to do with taking care of nature. It was not a part of there culture.
Then they go back to what they do best, stealing, drug distribution, talking gibberish, foul mouthed, and hanging in groups of lowlives that only prey on the innocent…o and procreating like rabbits, selling drugs, murdering, and Ebt…plus grimacing. Hawaiian…the most unremarkable race on earth. I forgot, and eating crap like spam, which accounts for the IQ, and riding around on motorcycles , making noise, and imagining they are cowboys or pirates..dumber than a sack o hammers. All I can say is….get lives…your own.
A mind is a Terri me thing to lose, but…they ain’t got none, so no need to worry.
Jesus is on way…all who look the other way, will be swimming soon, on lava.
What is the guy above talking about? I’m not gonna even say what I think he talking about. But in hawaii I never heard of any one eating any bird in ancient hawaii. I heard of using the feathers that stuck to the Sap on trees but never to capture any native bird for food.
Sad but true. I’m sorry to tell you that what you may believe about the Polynesians invasion/colonization is not true. Here is another link. They don’t teach this stuff at Hawaiian Immersion school! http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/hawaiis-vanished-birds-101149873/
On top of not knowing how to type. You don’t know what the hell you even talking about. Sounds like you talking about your own people. Ride bike and make noise brah you weird none of that apply to kanakas. Look in the mirror and floss your teeth with a #2 pencil before your pc screen smell like a homeless mic.
Yeah that article is what I have learned at hilo high. Hawaiians used to take feathers to make things but not by killing them and taking all their feathers. The mongoose and destroying their habitat took them to extinction. The money and sugar brought the invasive species because someone said we needed it not knowing eventually run out of food and start to prey on native birds to save the cane from yielding big money.
More denial from Live Aloha. They ate them, the bones were found in Polynesian scat in caves on Maui. You apparently have a selective learning curve. Anything that doesn’t point at America being bad you refuse to learn or accept. Poor you.
So if the tmt will kill any life in the rivers because this will help our community just like the sugar cane some thing tellen me it’s gonna be our fault again for letting you build it. I eat prawns and opae from these rivers but I don’t reproduce like rats and mongoose and my kids don’t live off cray fish to where it’s about to be gone. Any extinction of any species besides the dinosaur and a few others has a direct link to money not food. If that’s the case cows would be endangered because they only have 1 calf a year not like birds because they have 6 chick’s while rats and mongoose have 12 offspring 2 times a year.