How Do Illegal Animals Make Their Way to Hawaiʻi — and What Happens when They're Found?
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How do illegal animals make their way to Hawaiʻi — and what happens when they're found?
HONOLULU (KHON2) -- A Kaimuki man found a 3.5-foot-long ball python in his backyard on June 3, and officials with the Hawaiʻi Department of Agriculture (HDOA) safely captured it. After the snake was captured, officials said it was being “safeguarded” at the Plant Quarantine Branch (PQB). KHON2 spoke with Jonathan Ho, Plant Quarantine Branch Manager with the HDOA, to learn more about what comes next — and how these types of animals make it into H…

On the surface, the beaches in the U.S. state of Hawaii look fantastic - but according to a study a lot of plastic waste is hidden under the white sand. The French marine research institute Ifremer, the Hawaii Pacific University and the environmental organization The Ocean Cleanup had searched the beaches in three locations of the Hawaiian island of Oahu one meter deep for plastic waste for their investigation in the years 2022 to 2024.
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