Nowhere else in the United States is the planet’s biodiversity crisis so vividly on display as in Hawaii. Its islands are home to nearly 500 of the country’s 1,675 species listed as threatened or endangered, largely due to their isolation and the effects of introduced species such as rats and mosquitoes. Many of the state’s animals most in need of conservation action are forest birds, seabirds, and waterfowl. The stakes were made plain in 2021, when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service declared eight Hawaii forest birds extinct. Fortunately for its remaining species, Hawaii is also the state set to receive the largest boost in conservation funding from the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act, a bill whose passage by Congress has been a long time coming and could happen in the next few days. While Hawaii stands to gain the most, the bill promises paradigm-shifting conservation funding for every part of the country. “We are in the midst of a massive wildlife crisis,”...