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In December 2020, a cultural working group in Hawai‘i birthed a new name for the Bonin petrel, nunulu; in Hawaiian, the word means growling, warbling, or reverberating. Photo by Rebecca Jackrel/Alamy Stock Photo
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A cultural working group is developing Hawaiian names for seabirds in Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, after an extensive period of colonization eradicated many of those names...Hōkū Cody began journeying to the islands of Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument in 2013...Cody is part of a cultural working group that advocates on behalf of Native Hawaiians in Papahānaumokuākea, which encompasses the remote Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. 

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