Staff from Hawaii receive training on how to handle snakes. It’s part of a larger effort to ensure prevention and response capacity. — Photo courtesy Mike Ade, Maui Invasive Species Committee ...

After traveling nearly 7,000 miles from the United Kingdom to the Valley Isle last summer, a BBC film crew shadowed the Maui Invasive Species Committee (MISC) for a week.

After invading forests, the miconia was declared a noxious weed in 1991 and continues to be one of Hawaii’s most threatening and invasive plants. The miconia is a fast-growing, weedy tree that ...

The Maui News Maui Invasive Species Committee’s efforts to tackle invasive miconia in East Maui will be the subject of the BBC’s new series, “The Green Planet,” which will be shown in a ...