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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The "remake" Stephen Fry did a few years ago has this gem in it

https://youtu.be/9T1vfsHYiKY

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The origin of party parrot emoji

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Wait seriously? TIL!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Came here to make sure it's the kakapo. At the writing of the book there were something like 30 of them

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

it's why I love the kakapo so much, so glad others remember it too

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Oh wow he just like me fr fr

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Must have been a long vacation.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If anyone can keep this species alive, it's Rasputin.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

(Professor Farnsworth Voice) Good News, Everyone! The planet is dying but here's a happy little article about a parrot!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Indeed they are - to a reserve here

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Seeing the collective conservation efforts of multiple successive governments to eliminate all non-native predators from New Zealand by 2050 is really inspiring.

https://youtu.be/OmPrp1w1QYA

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

... parrot returning to ...N.Z. after 40-years...

Unfortunately it's mate had remarried /s