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Drones are dropping pods containing thousands of mosquitoes in the forests of Hawaii. To a mosquito magnet, this is a ...
Since their release into the wild just over six months ago, the Maui Forest Bird Recovery Project (MFBRP) has carried out ...
The lab-raised, non-biting male mosquitoes are meant to breed with the invasive ones on the islands and produce sterile eggs ...
It sounds like something out of a nightmare: a giant drone flying through the sky and dropping containers full of live, ...
HILO, Hawaii (KHON2) — On November 30, the executive director from Nēnē Research and Conservation was wrapping up routine survey’s of nēnē at Queen Liliuokalani Park in Hilo when h… ...
Scientists are dropping live mosquitoes out of drones in Hawaii to protect the colourful songbirds known as honeycreepers.
At least 10 birds, which included ducks, a goose and a zebra dove, had been reported dead at the property on Nov. 12. Samples from the dead birds were sent to be tested for the virus.
In a bold conservation move, scientists in Hawaii are using drones to release lab-bred, non-biting male mosquitoes into ...
The Birds, Not Mosquitoes program — a collaborative proposal by state agencies and other government, private and nonprofit organizations including U.S. Fish and Wildlife, the University of Hawaii, and ...
The dead birds are wild zebra doves, the same types of doves that were found dead at a Wahiawa duck sanctuary, where state officials confirmed Hawaii’s first cases of avian flu. Learn more ...
This, after Hawaii's first cases of avian flu were confirmed to have killed 20 of her rescued birds. "It's awful," said Wilkinson. "It's an absolute nightmare I'm living in right now.