Tonnie Casey This is Me

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1. 1. www.pacificwhale.org

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   Published on: 8/26/2006   Last Visited: 3/5/2007

   Featured speakers at the conference will include Governor Linda Lingle, Tim Low, Rob Anderson of the U.S. Geological Survey and Peter Simmons and Tonnie Casey of Kamehameha Schools.

2. 2. Welcome to Defenders of the Jungle!

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   Published on: 9/7/2002   Last Visited: 2/13/2007

   If they do succeed, chances are good that Tonnie Casey will be the one who flies to the rescue--literally, at the controls of a Huey helicopter dropping poison bait to eliminate the rats that overrun po'ouli habitat. A biologist for Hawaii's largest private landowner, Kamehameha School's Bishop Estate, Casey has a vested interest in the po'ouli's survival: She was the bird specialist who discovered the species in 1973 while working with college students on an ecological study of what is now the state's Hanawi Natural Area Reserve. But when Casey returned to her native Hawaii after a couple of peripatetic decades that included a long stint of flying choppers for the U.S. Army, she found that the bird had virtually disappeared in her absence.
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   "I believe that we can save the po'ouli if we follow New Zealand's example--and do it quickly," says Casey, who is also commander of the National Guard helicopter unit at Hilo, Hawaii.
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   When Tonnie Casey made her startling discovery 24 years ago, the po'ouli population may have numbered in the hundreds.
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   Casey, however, remains optimistic. "The birds still have a chance if we can get the toxicants out there and protect their nests from rats," she says.