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Funding from this settlement, among other sources, helped establish a colony of ua‘u and a‘o — another seabird, known as the Newell’s shearwater, which is federally threatened — in Kīlauea Point National Wildlife Refuge.

“We’ve been able to use the law to force people who are harming these birds to invest in projects to protect their nesting colonies,” said David Henkin, a senior attorney at Earthjustice, who’s based in Honolulu.

There are fewer than a dozen of them left in the wild, according to Lisa (“Cali”) Crampton, an avian ecologist who leads the Kauai Forest Birds Recovery Project (KFBRP).

Funded in part by the Endangered Species Act, KFBRP focuses on two main approaches: breeding birds in captivity to ensure there’s a backup population should the wild one go extinct, and reducing the number of mosquitos that carry avian malaria.

In Kauai, the plan is to release hundreds of thousands of male mosquitoes that are inoculated with a different strain of Wolbachia than the insects on the island (similar work is underway in Maui).

It’s becoming hard to imagine the ESA achieving its main goal — conserving vulnerable species — without also addressing climate change and other, more fundamental problems that are causing ecosystems to collapse.

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