It's why dozens of Hawaii's birds have gone extinct. Jennifer Pribble peeks into an enclosure holding critically endangered birds at the Maui Bird Conservation Center. To avoid that fate ...

“an extinction crisis” is right on the horizon,” Smith said during a news conference in Honolulu on Thursday. He and others blamed avian disease as the “main culprit.” “Hawaiian birds ...

Scientists predict their extinction in two to 15 years if ... and can be critical to saving Hawaii’s last forest birds. When male and female mosquitoes have matching Wolbachia strains, the ...

The nene, the world’s rarest goose, was once abundant across the Hawaiian Islands. Yet by the time it was listed in 1967 due to hunting and introduced predators, the nene teetered on the edge of ...

The Hawaiian birds declared extinct today are a case in point. Their forest habitats were razed by development and agriculture. The introduction to the islands of mosquitoes, which are not native and ...

State lawmakers say the timing for this bill is critical, as more than half of Hawaii’s native birds and over 100 unique plant species are already extinct.