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More native species at risk

Some 23 plants and insects are threatened or endangered

By Gary T. Kubota

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Sep 19, 2012

~~<p>More than 20 native plants and insects on Oahu have been added to the list of federal endangered and threatened species, joining 437 threatened and endangered species already designated in Hawaii &mdash; the highest number of any state in the nation.</p>
<p>Some scientists have called Hawaii &quot;the endangered species capital of the world.&quot;</p>
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More than 20 native plants and insects on Oahu have been added to the list of federal endangered and threatened species, joining 437 threatened and endangered species already designated in Hawaii — the highest number of any state in the nation.

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