Grand Wailea Hit With New Complaint Over Endangered Birds (1)

The owner of the Grand Wailea Resort Hotel & Spa was hit with a new lawsuit from conservation groups alleging that the bright lights from the Maui resort are still harming the Hawaiian petrel.

Conservation Council for Hawaii and Center for Biological Diversity previously reached a settlement in 2022 with the resort that required it to institute “seabird protection measures,” but their complaint, filed Thursday in the US District Court for the District of Hawaii, says that despite those lighting minimization measures, “artificial lights at the Grand Wailea continue to attract and ground Hawaiian petrels,” an endangered species.

The conservation ...