Pacific Islands Fish and Wildlife Office

The Animal Avoidance and Minimization Measures (AMMs) has been developed to provide guidance to minimize the impact on animals that are protected under the Endangered Species Act. This document was developed to protect animals native to Hawaiʻi, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recommends the following measures to be incorporated into project planning to avoid or minimize impacts to fish and wildlife resources. Best Management Practices (BMPs) include the incorporation of procedures or materials that may be used to reduce either...

Conservation introductions can be used for preventing extinction of a species or species population, reestablishing an ecological function lost, and directing ecosystem change toward a state that better supports conservation goals. The framework was developed for use by the U.S. Fish and...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) is proposing to eradicate rats (Rattus spp.) from the recently completed Hiʻi predator-proof fenced unit, built to protect ʻuaʻu (Hawaiian petrel, Pterodroma sandwichensis) habitat on Lānaʻi, through the use of a targeted...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposes to adopt the U.S. National Park Service’s Final Environmental Assessment (EA) entitled “Suppression of Invasive Mosquito Populations to Reduce Transmission of Avian Malaria to Threatened and Endangered Forest Birds on East Maui.” The Service has...

In accordance with  Section 7  of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, this letter documents the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s assessment routine activities by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) applied in the main Hawaiian Islands, American Samoa, Guam and Commonwealth...

The Hawaii Fish Habitat Partnership is composed of a diverse group of stakeholders who seek to develop and implement a technically sound aquatic habitat restoration program. The focus of the partnership is to protect, restore and maintain stream, estuary and coastal marine habitats to benefit...

To avoid and minimize invasive species potential impacts to fish and wildlife resources, we recommend incorporating invasive species biosecurity protocols into your project planning. We recommend biosecurity protocols be incorporated when project activities occur within any area containing...

Agency Docket No. FWS-R1-ES-2022-0068

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is preparing an Environmental Impact Statement to...

In accordance with Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, this letter documents the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s assessment of select conservation practices by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service applied in the main Hawaiian Islands, the...

Plant Avoidance and Minimization Measures are guidelines that are implemented to mitigate the impact human activities and development have on plant species that are protected under the Endangered Species Act. This document was developed to protect plants native to Hawaiʻi, Guam, the Commonwealth...

In accordance with Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, this letter documents the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s assessment of bird damage management practices by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Wildlife Services applied in the main Hawaiian Islands. This programmatic...

In accordance with Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, this programmatic informal consultation documents  the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s assessment of regularly conducted Federal Highways Administration actions as part of either  preservation, construction or...

To comply with obligations under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service prepared an Environmental Action Statement (EAS) which explains how the conservation benefit agreement fits the categorical-exclusion criteria of the Department of the Interior and U...