American Bird Conservancy

Landscape Control of Mosquitoes Is One of the Most Urgent Conservation Problems in Hawaii for Hawaiian Forest Birds Mosquitoes and the Diseases They Spread Are Driving the Extinction of Native Forest Birds in Hawaii a Partnership of Federal, State and Non Governmental Organizations, Including the American Bird Conservancy, Entitled Birds Not Mosquitoes Is Collaborating on the Development and Implementation of a Wolbachia Insect Incompatibility Technique to Control Mosquito Populations in Key Conservation Areas Deploying This Tool in Time to Save Imperiled Birds Will Only Be Successful If an Aerial Delivery Capacity Is Developed to Distribute the Iit Mosquitoes on the Landscape the Goal of This Project Is to Collaboratively Leverage the Above Work and Expertise of American Bird Conservancy Abc to Develop and Test an Aerial Deployment Capacity for Landscape Scale Deployment of Wolbachia Iit in Hawaii at Identified Implementation Sites Financial Assistance Will Provide for the Project Management and Coordination Needed to Work on a Standard Operating Procedure to Identify the Delivery Platform, Required Permitting, Logistical Planning and Staffing and Support Required for the Aerial Delivery of Iit Mosquitoes on Federal State Private Lands in Hawaii