World Nature Conservation Day: How a large, flightless parrot rebounded from the verge of extinction

Mongabay
Jul 28, 2025, 12:28 am91 pts
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. In the mid-1990s, the kākāpō seemed destined for extinction. Only 51 individuals of the flightless, nocturnal parrot remained, all of them descended from a shrinking gene pool…

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