MAUI FOREST BIRD RECOVERY PROJECT photo The petite brown ... the lush areas started disappearing from grazing and browsing by wild animals. Once the native forests diminished, the birds started ...

The species has been extinct in the wild since 2002 ... For Keanini Aarona, an avian recovery specialist at Maui Bird Conservation Center, it holds a special significance to care for ‘alalā ...

in the Kīpahulu Forest Reserve on Maui. This is the first time the endemic bird has been reintroduced into the wild outside of Hawaii Island. ʻAlalā play a crucial role in Hawaiian culture and ...

Five Hawaiian crows were released back into nature for the first time on Maui. Researchers said the bird, known as the alala, went extinct in the wild in 2002. They were last found on Hawaii’s ...