An inside look at Maui’s landscape-scale mosquito suppression efforts to protect Hawaiʻi’s endangered honeycreepers from avian malaria and climate-driven extinction.

Honolulu’s urban canopy supports one of Hawaiʻi’s most visible native seabirds: the manu o Kū, or White Tern. This story follows the collaborative effort to train arborists, students, and conservation partners in wildlife-aware tree care practices that help protect nesting birds within the city’s urban forest.

In July 2025, the song of the Laysan Finch returned to Kuaihelani (Midway Atoll) for the first time in eighty years. This story follows the collaborative translocation effort to restore an endangered Hawaiian bird to its ancestral home.

In early 2025, four Worcester Polytechnic Institute students traveled to Hawaiʻi to create ArcGIS StoryMaps on native Hawaiian birds and seabird conservation — blending science, storytelling, and technology to bring conservation education to new audiences.

Conservation Dogs of Hawaiʻi trains scent-detection dogs to find downed seabirds during fallout season and detect invasive species across the islands — a groundbreaking approach to conservation that proves the canine nose may be one of Hawaiʻi's most powerful tools for protecting native wildlife.