There are many Hawaiian native species including a host of birds, carnivorous caterpillars, largest dragonfly in US, crickets, endangered sea turtles, and a native terrestrial mammal the bat. There are 23 songbird species that survived but their life if threatened by habitat loss, bird malaria, and invasions of allen invasive plants. At parks mid elevation, blazing blooms of 'ohi' trees and towering fronds of giant hapu'u, a tree fern. This evolved over 70 million years ago in nearly complete isolation, more than 90% of the states native flora are found only on the Hawaiian Islands. We protect the species by providing scientific expertise and technological assistance. they use support sound management, protection, conservation, and preservation of biological resources and related ecosystem processes. They focus their efforts on the ecosystem reservation, human dimensions of biological resources, integrated pest management, invasive species, landscape ecology, and conservation, threatened and endangered species, wildlife health/conservation, and exotic plant management.