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	Maui ‘ground zero’ for release of billions of biopesticide lab-altered mosquitoes Michael Nevradakis, LifeSite, 2024. Up to 775,992,000 bacteria-infected mosquitoes could be released in Maui every week for the next 20 years, according to Hawaii Unites, an environmental advocacy group that last month lost its bid to require the state to conduct an environmental impact statement before allowing ... Keywords: bird malaria, conservation, Culex, cytoplasmic incompatibility, genetic biocotrol, Hawaii, incompatible insect technique, wolbachia
	Judge sides with Hawaii to block challenge to mosquito release plan Candice Cheung, Courthouse News Service, 2024. A planned program to save endemic Hawaiian birds from avian malaria by releasing thousands of biopesticide mosquitoes into Maui’s rainforest will go on, despite an attempt by an environmental nonprofit to block the project.First Circuit Court Judge John Tonaki ruled Tuesday ... Keywords: bird malaria, conservation, Culex, cytoplasmic incompatibility, genetic biocotrol, Hawaii, incompatible insect technique, wolbachia
	Draft environmental assessment released for using modified mosquitoes to save native birds on Kauaʻi Anonymous, Big Island NOW, 2023. Today, the draft environmental assessment was made public for the use of Wolbachia-based incompatible male mosquitoes on Kauaʻi to stop the spread of avian malaria that is decimating native forest bird populations. The public has 31 days — from June 23 until July 24 — to ... Keywords: bird malaria, conservation, Culex, cytoplasmic incompatibility, genetic biocotrol, Hawaii, incompatible insect technique, wolbachia
	Draft environmental assessment for use of Wolbachia-based incompatible insect technique for the suppression of nonnative southern house mosquito populations on Kauaʻi Hawai'i Department of Land and Natural Resources, Hawai'i Department of Land and Natural Resources, 2023. The State of Hawai'i Department of Land and Natural Resources hereby transmits the Draft Environmental Assessment and Anticipated Finding of No Significant Impact (DEAEnvironmental Assessment for use of Wolbachia-based Incompatible Insect Technique for the suppression of ... Keywords: bird malaria, conservation, Culex, cytoplasmic incompatibility, genetic biocotrol, Hawaii, incompatible insect technique, wolbachia
	Mosquito control to save Hawaiian honeycreepers does not involve GMOs Department of Land and Natural Resources, Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources, 2022. Despite misinformation circulating on social media, the importation of “incompatible-male” mosquitoes to control populations of wild mosquitoes and to save four native bird species from extinction, does not involve the use of any genetically modified organisms (GMOs) or ... Keywords: bird malaria, conservation, Culex, cytoplasmic incompatibility, genetic biocotrol, Hawaii, incompatible insect technique, wolbachia