For Keanini Aarona, an avian recovery specialist at Maui Bird Conservation Center, it holds a special significance to care for ‘alalā, according to a statement from the San Diego Zoo Wildlife ...

The initial 90-day pause was issued on Dec. 13, 2024 and expires on March 13, 2025. The extension will continue until June 13, 2025.

Workers who had hoped to spend their careers supporting these at-risk local species have been let go. Now, who might take ...

and can be critical to saving Hawaii’s last forest birds. When male and female mosquitoes have matching Wolbachia strains, the sperm and egg are like connecting puzzle pieces that result in ...

STANTON FINK illustration For millennia, before humans ever set foot in Hawaii, birds ruled the islands. From mountaintop to shoreline, the feathered filled the forests, grasslands, wetlands and ...

The Hawaii Department of Agriculture today said it is extending a voluntary pause on the interisland transport of poultry and other bird species to help prevent the spread of H5N1, or highly ...

Bird flu has spread to Hawaii for the first time ever amid growing concerns the virus could soon learn to jump between humans. Ducks and geese on a backyard farm on the island of Oahu, home of the ...

The Hawaii Department of Health is inviting Hawaii residents with backyard flocks or involved in bird rescues to participate ...

For some species a single bite from an infected mosquito means certain death. Many of these birds are on the verge of extinction in the wild. Maui’s endemic forest birds are facing an immediate ...