Park rangers at the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park are discouraging people from leaving religious offerings at the top of Mount Kilauea. They say food is often left and that it attracts rats and cockroaches.

An estimated 45 pounds of offerings are left every week.

Among the offerings are flowers, bottles, money and candles. But rangers say the food offerings rot and attract insects and rodents, which pose a threat to the endangered nene goose.

Many also burn fake money, which is meant to aid people in the afterlife, but such fires are illegal.