The department of land and natural resources, division of aquatic resources (DAR) is significantly dependent on outside funding, especially federal funding, to fulfill its responsibilities and work…

The State of Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) was awarded a $375,000 Cooperative Agreement grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Unallied Management Projects program (CFDA 11.454). The funding will be used over a 5-year period from October 2023 to September 2028 to support research, conservation, management, and protection of four marine species in Hawaii that are listed as "threatened" or "endangered" under the Endangered Species Act: the false killer whale, Hawaiian monk seal, hawksbill sea turtle, and green sea turtle. The DLNR will utilize these federal funds to conduct investigations, threat assessments, and conservation efforts for these protected marine species across the Hawaiian islands.

The department of land and natural resources, division of aquatic resources (DAR) is significantly dependent on outside funding, especially federal funding, to fulfill its responsibilities and work with its agency and nonprofit partners to marine species in the state of hawai'i currently listed as "threatened" or "endangered" under the national endangered species act. In 2022, $375,000 of federal funds were made available to dlnr to support research, conservation, management, and protection of four marine T & E species between october 2023 and september 2028: the highly endangered insular distinct population segment (DPS) of false killer whales (pseudorca crassidens), the highly endangered hawaiian monk seal (neomonachus schauinslandi;), the endangered hawksbill sea turtle (eretmochelys imbricata), and the threatened central pacific DPS of green sea turtles (chelonia mydas). DAR proposes to use these federal funds to conduct investigation, threa