The Hawaiian hawk is being removed from the endangered and threatened species list in one of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s first acts of 2020, according to a decision published Jan. 2.
The service said that Hawaii’s only native hawk, known locally as the ‘Io, has now reached a stable population of about 3,000 birds, and is no longer threatened.
“The delisting is based on studies showing range-wide population estimates have been stable for more than 30 years,” Fish and Wildlife Service spokesman Ivan Vicente said Jan. 2. “The ʻIo has demonstrated its adaptability and is nesting and ...
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