Feds Ramp Up Efforts To Save Hawaii’s Endangered Forest Birds In A Race Against Time 1 Wildlife officials hope a new strategy, in addition to other measures, will prevent the extinction of native bird species.
Federal wildlife officials aim to direct some $14 million from the new Bipartisan Infrastructure Law toward the urgent, ongoing effort to save 12 native Hawaiian forest bird species battered by avian malaria and headed toward extinction.
They’re also poised to finally put forth a proposed designated habitat for one of those imperiled birds, the iʻiwi, as required by law, according to the Department of Interior.
The new “Strategy for the Prevention of the Extinction of Hawaiian Birds,” which DOI released last week, would deploy by 2026 a sort of mosquito “birth control” program that aims to trim the number of disease-carrying insects that have invaded the birds’ forest habitats.
