#extinct

Eight Hawaiian bird species, including four that called Maui County home, and a mint plant last found on Lānaʻi likely have succumbed to the same fate as dinosaurs and gone extinct.

Conservationists working to recover the ‘alalā (Hawaiian crow) are addressing recent mortalities of the species living in the Pu’u Maka`ala Natural Area Reserve on Hawai‘i island by bringing the surviving wild crows back into the protection of its conservation breeding program.

Help is underway at an island pond, where researchers are reintroducing endangered damselflies, in an effort prevent extinction of a native Hawaiian insect.