Preventing an Extinction: Saving Native Hawaiian Birds From Deadly Mosquitoes | PBS Hawai`i

Learn how experts are saving Hawaiian forest birds from an extinction caused by invasive, disease-carrying mosquitoes. These videos describe the evolution and cultural and ecological importance of these birds, the climate-related migration of mosquitoes that are killing them, and the two solutions underway to save remaining bird populations.

Through engagement prompts and discussion questions, students determine the cause-and-effect relationships that created this ecological crisis and informed its solutions, debate unintentional and intentional human impacts on the environment, and discuss the needs and motivations of conservation projects like this one.