Officials have proposed that the
Hawaiian Goose be downlisted from Endangered to Threatened.
The Nene, Hawai’i’s official
state bird also known as the Hawaiian
Goose, has recently received some good news. Due to a growing
population, the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service has proposed downlisting the status of the
Hawaiian Goose from Endangered to Threatened under the Endangered
Species Act. The state bird has been considered Endangered
according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature since 1967,
but after 51 years, the species is no longer in immediate danger of extinction.
The Nene’s population was
recorded at 30 individuals in 1960. The Nene was first protected in 1967 and
has since benefited from a combined recovery effort, including captive breeding,
predator control, and habitat protection. Today, more than 2,800 Nene live
across all of the Hawaiian Islands. Loyal Mehrhoff, the Endangered Species
Recovery Director at the Center for Biological Diversity said:
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