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HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii is on course to receive $14 million in federal funding to help...

State to Receive $14M in Federal Funding to Help Forest Birds

WAILUKU, Hawaii (AP) — Federal and state officials on Maui want to use bacteria to get rid of nonnative mosquitoes that carry avian malaria to help prevent the extinction of native forest birds found only in Hawaii.

May 1—State and federal conservation officials are moving forward with a plan to capture up to 30 critically endangered kiwikiu and then ship them to the mainland in a move to prevent the rapidly declining native forest bird, also known as the Maui parrotbill, from going extinct. But the plan, detailed in a recent presentation to the state Board of Land and Natural Resources, has drawn some ...

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...