With temperatures increasing and the mosquitos getting further up into the mountains and bringing the deadly avian malaria with them, they’re just decimating these populations.” They’ve reached the end of the slippery slope they’ve been on for decades. Literally, some of these species like ʻakikiki and ‘akeke’e’ on Kaua‘i and kiwikiu on Maui could go extinct within months. They’re right on the verge of extinction. “We have about three species that are just critical at this point. During Tuesday’s open house to provide information and gather input for an Environmental Assessment for the Kauaʻi IIT project, Department of Land and Natural Resources Division of Forestry and Wildlife Administrator David Smith detailed the project, pending regulatory approvals, proposed to begin this fall on Kaua‘i. ![]() The ray of hope is the planned implementation of what is known as IIT, or incompatible insect technique. ![]() ![]() For Hite, and dozens of others working to save three species of honeycreepers from sure extinction, it’s a foregone conclusion, but depressing, nonetheless. They’ve joined other ‘akikiki who will be raised in safe keeping until the threat of avian malaria is eliminated in the wild.
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