{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://case.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=689", "Case Announces One Million Dollars In Federal Grants For Key Wildlife Projects In Hawaii", "2021-10-21", "2021", "2021-10", "Democrat", "House", "HI", "Ed Case", "C001055", "case.house.gov", "case", "https://case.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx?DocumentTypeID=27&Page=24", "scraper", "(Washington, DC) \u2013 Congressman Ed Case (HI-01) today announced that the State of Hawaii will receive more than $1 million in grants for three key projects to benefit unique wildlife and their habitats. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) included Hawai\u2019i among 16 states which won grants through its Competitive State Wildlife Grant (C-SWG) program.\n\n\u201cThese grants are critical investments by our federal government in partnership with local and state agencies to protect species that are unique to our island home,\u201d said Case, a member of the House Appropriations Committee with jurisdiction over FWS funding.\n\n\u201cThe Competitive State Wildlife Grants provide a proactive, collaborative and innovative mechanism for addressing significant threats to our nation\u2019s cherished wildlife and their habitats,\u201d said Martha Williams, FWS\u2019 Principal Deputy Director\n\n\u201cStemming the crisis of species extinction is a central component of the Biden-Harris administration\u2019s America the Beautiful initiative.\u201d\n\n\u201cOne of the initiative\u2019s goals is to enhance wildlife habitat and improve biodiversity to keep species from reaching the point where they are too far gone to save. In addition, these grants provide support for State Wildlife Action Plans that underpin important efforts to conserve imperiled species and their habitats,\u201d said Williams.\n\nCase said one of the projects awarded a grant will enable the Hawai\u2019i Department of Land and Natural Resources to join forces with the University of Hawai\u2019i-Manoa\u2019s College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources and FWS to implement conservation actions for rare, Yellow-faced bees on O\u2019ahu. Stabilization and recovery of some of the last populations of the bees on O\u2019ahu is achievable with the installation of fencing around key habitat, planting of diverse native plant species correlated with nesting success, and deployment of artificial nest habitat, which provides protection against predators.\n\nAll FWS projects awarded grants include timely actions, such as range-wide species assessments and habitat improvements, that may help avert the need for new federal endangered species listings and that help states implement FWS recovery plans to cooperatively protect and conserve species that are currently listed.\n\nThe three grant projects for Hawai\u2019i include:\n\nProject Title\n\nSWG FederalShare\n\nNon-FederalMatch\n\nTotal ProjectCost\n\nMulti-Institution Hawaiian Land Snail Captive Propagation Network\n\n$ 500,000.00\n\n$ 166,667.00\n\n$ 666,667.00\n\nO\u2018ahu \u2018Elepaio Status, Demography, and Predator Control\n\n$ 246,188.00\n\n$ 82,600.00\n\n$ 328,788.00\n\nStabilizing Yellow-faced Bee Populations\n\n$ 333,983.00\n\n$ 111,526.00\n\n$ 445,509.00\n\nAttachments: pictures of Yellow-faced bee courtesy Hawaii State Department of Land and Natural Resources", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:24:51Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://case.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=689"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.7376532778143883, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}