Maui Is No Longer Safe For Hawaii's Endangered Birds, Biologists Say
Maui Is No Longer Safe For Hawaii's Endangered Birds, Biologists Say - Honolulu Civil Beat New refuges are sought as scientists battle disease-carrying mosquitoes in the face of a changing climate. Reading time: 9 minutes. Mosquitoes have eliminated the last safe place for endangered forest birds on Maui, and the only solution may require releasing millions more mosquitoes. Climate change has made once-uninhabitable higher altitudes now amenable to mosquitoes that infect the kiwikiu, or Maui parrotbill, with avian malaria at greater rates. Transmission of the disease has driven the bird popu...
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