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The article focuses on the restoration of Pearl Harbor natural habitat in Hawaii. The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service is restoring subtropical dry forest and the anchialine pools. Invasive plant species are removed in habitat restoration efforts. Habitat degradation and destruction, over-collection of the shrimp for the aquarium trade are effecting the anchialine pools. Eleven anchialine pools have been restored as of September 1, 2009. It also lists the endangered flora and fauna.

The article presents information on endangered Laysan ducks and their restoration at Midway Island. The U.S. Geological Survey's Biological Resources Discipline and the Fish and Wildlife Service set up an "insurance policy" to conserve the world's most vulnerable bird species. Hurricanes, tsunamis and disease outbreaks are common threat to the population of ducks. Bird poachers, miners and rabbits contributed in reduction of ducks and three birds were considered as endangered including Laysan rail, Laysan honeycreeper and Laysan millerbird. In 2004, a draft revised recovery plan to meet the aim of downlisting the endangered species by establishing four populations on island. Dr. michelle Reynolds, a wildlife biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey's Pacific Island Ecosystems Research Center, lead a team of biologist and refuge managers to investigate the habitants of ducks. birds were released with their mates in groups and were monitored closely. The article offers how ducks developed themselves in island and produced eggs. In January 1, 2005, 40 translocated birds were found alive and doing well.

The article offers information on research related to the Nihoa millerbird, which is an endangered species. The Nihoa millerbird is found only on the Nihoa Island in Hawaii. Biologists from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are concerned about its extinction due to the invasiveness of grasshoppers on the island. Scientist Mark MacDonald is studying the millerbirds, its feeding, behavior, diet composition, and its potential prey base. Preliminary results show that the birds feed readily from a plastic container of prey items. Preliminary spectrograph analysis of song recordings shows more variety among the songs of male millerbirds. The new research is stated to have provided the scientists from the Service some hope that a second population of the bird can be established.