
Mosquito Control Project to Save Honeycreepers Underway on Maui and Kaua‘i – Method Aims to Prevent Hawaiian Honeycreeper Extinctions
Several Hawaiian honeycreepers are facing imminent extinction due…

2024 is Ka Makahiki o Nā Manu Nahele: The Year of the Forest Birds
2024 is Ka Makahiki o Nā Manu Nahele: The Year of the Forest…

Resisting extinction – THE NEXT TOOL FOR SAVING KAUA‘I FOREST BIRDS FROM EXTINCTION INTRODUCED
(KOKE‘E-WAIMEA…

Wildlife conservation agencies (state and federal) are one step closer to protecting forest birds from mosquito-borne diseases in Kauaʻi
HONOLULU — The Hawaiʻi Department of Land and Natural Resources…

Action Alert | Submit testimony for OCTOBER 13 BLNR Meeting
Share your manaʻo by THIS THURSDAY, 10/12 on the Final Kauaʻi…

ALL HANDS EFFORT TO SAVE KAUAʻI BIRDS FROM EXTINCTION
Bird experts on Kauaʻi are using all the tools in their toolbox to keep critically endangered forest birds from going extinct. One honeycreeper species, ʻakikiki, could disappear from the wild this year due to mosquito-borne avian malaria, with another species, ʻakekeʻe, not far behind. Warmer climates in recent years have allowed invasive mosquitoes to move to higher elevations, increasing the risk of disease to native forest birds. While conservation partners wait for final approval of a proposed mosquito birth control, also known as the Incompatible Insect Technique (IIT), they are stepping up their use of other, more traditional tools to give the birds a lifeline.