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Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Forestry and Wildlife

An assessment of current avian malaria conditions and extinction risk in Waikamoi Preserve on Maui
This project will compare relative Culex abundances, and the prevalence of Plasmodium relictum, in mosquitoes and birds at the upper and lower bounds of a key portion of the kiwikiu and ‘akohekohe ranges. This information will be used to inform the design and implementation of landscape-level mosquito control technique. In addition, it will provide critical information on habitat suitability and imminent disease risk for the two critically endangered Maui forest birds. This project will provide baseline comparative information on mosquito distribution and avian malaria infection prevalence in mosquitoes and birds within a key portion of kiwikiu and ‘akohekohe range. The project products will be made available to...
Conservation partners in Hawaii are tasked with protecting and restoring native ecosystems across remote and varied landscapes in the face of continuous invasions of novel threats and a changing climate. Hundreds of species have been lost to extinction and hundreds more remain at risk. To guide their efforts, managers have dozens of excellent recovery plans that comprise reams of pages. Implementing those plans, however, poses an often‐overwhelming challenge because funds are not currently adequate to implement every plan in every place. As a result, managers make tough decisions on where to focus effort and which conservation actions should be implemented first. Those decisions must include locations and actions...
Moloka‘i and Maui High Resolution Invasive Species Surveys
The Fish and Wildlife Service is collaborating with the State of Hawaii Division of Forestry and Wildlife to identify priorities for science data that would directly apply to improving management for species recovery and delisting. This State-Federal partnership has identified windward Molokai and Maui’s ecosystems as an opportunity to gather data that could greatly benefit conservation actions. Northeastern Moloka‘i and West Maui contains some of the most intact native forest in the entire archipelago, and dozens of listed species. Here, windwardfacing valleys and plateaus have been managed for decades to greatly suppress feral animal populations, however incipient populations of invasive ferns – Angiopteris evecta...
This project has provided baseline information on mosquito distribution and avian malaria prevalence in birds within a key portion of kiwikiu and ʻākohekohe range. This will help evaluate the immediate extinction risk for these two species in this area; the results are promising that this portion of Waikamoi has not been inundated with mosquitoes yet and may for some time provide habitat for the endangered honeycreepers. MFBRP will be replicating this study in the Hanawi Natural Area Reserve in 2022. In addition to this work, with TNC and partners, we have been collecting mosquito distribution and malaria prevalence samples across the windward slope of Haleakalā, where kiwikiu and ʻākohekohe are currently found....
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