Kanaha Pond Predator Study Showed the Difference
(article from the Newsletter of the Conservation Council for Hawaii, Vol. 45, Winter 1994)

The article Kanaha Pond Predator Study Showed the Difference summarizes a study conducted in 1994 on the control of mammalian predators of Hawaiian waterbirds at Kanaha Pond Wildlife Sanctuary on Maui, Hawaii. The goal of this study was to reduce the predator population, to evaluate predator diets with respect to bird predation, to document the significance such predation has on the endangered waterbird population, and to develop a strategy for a long term trapping program. This project was funded by the US Fish and Wildlife Service and administered by the Conservation Council for Hawaii. Principal investigator was Dr. Renate Gassmann-Duvall, D.V.M., Ph.D.

Download the online version of the article in the Hawaii Conservation Council Newsletter:

• Kanaha Pond Predator Study Showed the Difference  (Hawaii Conservation Council Newsletter, Vol 45, Winter 1994) (4 pages, 429 kb)

Thanks go to Dr. Fern Duvall of the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources for providing the original article which was electronically scanned and presented here.

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