News Releases

DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES News Release DAVID Y. IGE GOVERNOR SUZANNE D. CASE  CHAIRPERSON For Immediate News Release: January 11, 2019 FISH SEIZED IN LAY NET BUST PROVIDE VALUABLE SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION No Waste-After Research Return to the Ecosystem...

DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES News Release DAVID Y. IGE GOVERNOR SUZANNE D. CASE  CHAIRPERSON For Immediate News Release: January 11, 2019 BOTTOMFISHING TO RESUME IN ONE THIRD OF PREVIOUSLY RESTRICTED AREAS State Land Board Approves Plan Based on...

DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES News Release DAVID Y. IGE GOVERNOR SUZANNE D. CASE  CHAIRPERSON For Immediate News Release: January 11, 2019 (Honolulu) -  The carcass of a sperm whale, first spotted off-shore from Kewalo Basin yesterday is now...

DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES News Release DAVID Y. IGE GOVERNOR SUZANNE D. CASE  CHAIRPERSON For Immediate News Release: January 10, 2019 VETERAN LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER PICKED TO LEAD STATE CONSERVATION AND RESOURCES ENFORCEMENT To watch video on DOCARE...

DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES News Release DAVID Y. IGE GOVERNOR SUZANNE D. CASE  CHAIRPERSON For Immediate News Release: January 6, 2019 DOCARE OFFICERS BUST REPEAT OFFENDER FOR LAY NET VIOLATION (Honolulu) – On Thursday, officers from the DLNR...

DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES News Release DAVID Y. IGE GOVERNOR SUZANNE D. CASE  CHAIRPERSON For Immediate News Release: January 4, 2019 MAUNALUA BAY RAMP LOADING DOCK CLOSED (Honolulu) – The DLNR Division of Boating and Ocean Recreation (DOBOR)...

DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES News Release DAVID Y. IGE GOVERNOR SUZANNE D. CASE  CHAIRPERSON For Immediate News Release: January 4, 2019 RIP GEORGE The Last Known Land Snail Of His Kind Dies (Honolulu) –The last known Achatinella apexfulva...

DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES News Release DAVID Y. IGE GOVERNOR SUZANNE D. CASE  CHAIRPERSON For Immediate News Release: December 28, 2018  STATE LAND CONSERVATION COMMISSION SEEKS NEW MEMBERS Growing by the acre: Resources protected for public benefit (Honolulu)–A...

DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES News Release DAVID Y. IGE GOVERNOR SUZANNE D. CASE  CHAIRPERSON For Immediate News Release: December 28, 2018  WEST HAWAI‘I STATE PARKS TO CLOSE EARLY FOR NEW YEAR’S EVE (Kailua-Kona) – The Department of Land...

DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES News Release DAVID Y. IGE GOVERNOR SUZANNE D. CASE  CHAIRPERSON For Immediate News Release: December 27, 2018  A Great Year for Endangered Hawaiian Seabirds 39 Chicks Fledge from Protected Nihokū Site in 2018 (Kīlauea,...