The Hanalei National Wildlife Refuge, straddling the Hanalei River, has taken an unusual approach (compared with most National Wildlife Refuges) to attempt to rectify the problem: Instead of setting aside uncultivated area for wildlife, as in other refuges, land is specifically made available to farmers for growing taro, therefore re-introducing the wetlands which the birds have depended on for the past thousand years.

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