Program begins releasing mosquitoes on Kauai to protect endangered honeycreepers

Conservationists on Kauai have begun releasing hundreds of thousands of male mosquitoes incapable of reproducing in an effort to combat avian malaria, a disease threatening native honeycreepers with extinction.

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