Oahu Forest National Wildlife Refuge was established in 2000 “. . . to conserve (A) fish or wildlife which are listed as endangered species or threatened species . . . or (B) plants . . .” The refuge encompasses approximately 4525 acres (18.3 km²) and is managed by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.

Landscape

The Refuge is located on the upper slopes of the northern Koʻolau Range, on the island of O'ahu.

Natural resources

O‘ahu Forest National Wildlife Refuge is home to at least four species of endangered pupu kani oe (O'ahu tree snail

O'ahu tree snail

Oahu tree snails, genus Achatinella, are a large genus of colorful, tropical, tree-living, air-breathing, land snails, arboreal pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Achatinellidae....

s), 15 endangered plant species, and many native birds, including the O‘ahu ‘elepaio, [[ʻIʻiwi|‘i‘iwi]], pueo

Pueo

The Pueo is a subspecies of Short-eared owl that is endemic to Hawaii. The pueo is one of the various nā aumākua in Hawaiian culture....

, and native honeycreepers

Hawaiian honeycreeper

Hawaiian honeycreepers are small, passerine birds endemic to Hawaii. Some authorities still categorize this group as a family Drepanididae, but in recent years, most authorities consider them a subfamily, Drepanidinae, of Fringillidae, the finch family...

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