The lab-raised, non-biting male mosquitoes are meant to breed with the invasive ones on the islands and produce sterile eggs that will help suppress avian malaria ...

Every week at the Maui airport, a small helicopter gets loaded with 250,000 passengers. They're male mosquitoes, key players in a strategy that could be the last, best hope for Hawaii's endangered ...

Hawaii's unique birds, known as honeycreepers, are being wiped out by mosquitoes carrying avian malaria. ... Birds brought to the Maui Bird Conservation Center are often the last of their species.

Conservationists working to save Hawaii’s endangered, native birds are now using drones to deliver lab-reared, male ...

Forest birds in Maui and Kauai are threatened by avian malaria and climate change. ... Hawaii program director at American Bird Conservancy, a conservation group that’s leading the drone effort.

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HONOLULU (CN) — A Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals panel, siding with the state and bird advocates, found that a mosquito suppression biopesticide project designed to protect endangered native ...

State officials are hopeful for the future of Hawaii’s forest birds, saying that recent efforts to protect bird populations could help prevent the species from going extinct. Courtesy photo/DLNR ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Avian influenza is spreading in the islands for the first time and Hawaii Department of Agriculture officials said Hawaii is the last of the 50 states to detect the disease.

Using an unconventional method that reduces mosquito populations, the critically endangered birds may have a fighting chance.

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