New Zealand’s kākāpō recovery program added 90 chicks this season, bringing the critically endangered parrot’s official population to 325 birds. That is still a small number, but it is a recovery-era high for a species once down to 51. This is a clean conservation comeback: patient protection, predator-free habitat, and one strange, beloved bird getting more room in the future.
The long patience behind species recovery and why one breeding season can matter.
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