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I’ll always take any chance to plug Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams which is a fantastic book that has a section about the Kakapo conservation efforts.
The “remake” Stephen Fry did a few years ago has this gem in it
The origin of party parrot emoji
Wait seriously? TIL!
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it’s why I love the kakapo so much, so glad others remember it too
Came here to make sure it’s the kakapo. At the writing of the book there were something like 30 of them
Oh wow he just like me fr fr
Must have been a long vacation.
If anyone can keep this species alive, it’s Rasputin.
Good for them. Given that their thing is to reproduce really, really slowly!
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(Professor Farnsworth Voice) Good News, Everyone! The planet is dying but here’s a happy little article about a parrot!
Seems pretty dangerous. The main islands of New Zealand are full of pests/ introduced predators like rats, stoats, ferrets, possums, hedgehogs, and feral cats.
Hopefully they will put these flightless parrots inside a predator-proof fence, or their days are numbered.
Indeed they are - to a reserve here
Seeing the collective conservation efforts of multiple successive governments to eliminate all non-native predators from New Zealand by 2050 is really inspiring.
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… parrot returning to …N.Z. after 40-years…
Unfortunately it’s mate had remarried /s
