Jun. 27—U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland today announced that nearly $16 million in federal funding has been committed to the prevention of the imminent extinction of Hawaiian forest birds.

Thousands of mosquitoes, encased in cardboard tubes, are loaded into a helicopter by Aidan Callahan, Layla Rohde and Nicole Ferguson of the Maui Forest Bird Recovery Project, part of a novel strategy ...

Oct. 17—The eight Hawaiian bird species are all forest honeycreepers. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is delisting 21 species—including eight Hawaii bird species—from the Endangered Species Act due ...

Origins and evolution / Thane K. Pratt -- Historic decline and extinction / Winston E. Banko and Paul C. Banko -- Hawaiian culture and forest birds / Verna L.U. Amante-Helweg and Sheila Conant -- ...

Kanekoa Kukea-Shultz, left, executive director of Kakoo Oiwi, met U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland on Tuesday during a tour of Kakoo Oiwi taro patches and Paepae o Heeia’s fishpond in ...

HONOLULU — As the days for 2024 count down, “Makahiki o na Manu Nahele: Year of the Forest Birds,” the year-long celebration and awareness campaign of Hawaiian forest birds comes to a close following ...

HONOLULU (Island News) -- Alarming statistics for Hawaii's native forest bird species: nearly half of them are now extinct. Of the dozens of species left, half are now threatened or endangered. But it ...

HONOLULU – Handmade bird puppets, lab scientist costumes, moʻolelo, and animated infographics are just some of the tools that K-12 students across Hawaiʻi used to create video projects about forest ...

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 ...