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All conservation efforts were unsuccessful until the Kākāpō Recovery Programme began in 1995. ... beginning of the Kakapo Recovery Programme; 1999: Kākāpō ...
"The No. 1 takeaway is that this sort of conservation takes a long time," said Andrew Digby, who helped save the kakapo bird from extinction.
Sirocco (hatched 23 March 1997) [1] is a kākāpō, a large, flightless, nocturnal parrot, and one of the remaining living individuals numbering only 244 (as of 2024). [2] He achieved individual fame following an incident on the BBC television series Last Chance to See in which he attempted to mate with zoologist Mark Carwardine.
Last Chance to See is a wildlife documentary first broadcast on BBC Two in the United Kingdom during September and October 2009. The series is a follow-up of the 1989 radio series, also called Last Chance to See, in which Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine set out to find endangered animals.
The decade-long research is the biggest of its kind ever completed.
Richard Henry kākāpō held by Merton, Codfish Island / Whenua Hou, November 2010.Richard Henry spent the past 35 years on four predatory-mammal-free islands. Named after Richard Treacy Henry the pioneer conservationist, and from 1894 to 1910, custodian of Resolution Island, New Zealand he was the last known survivor of his species from mainland New Zealand and was believed to be more than ...
Richard Henry wrote many short articles on natural history for newspapers such as the Otago Witness and the Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, and for scientific journals such as the Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, as well as letters and reports to his employers when working for the Department of Lands and Survey and the Department of Tourist and Health Resorts.
These birds are managed by the Kākāpō Recovery Team, which is a part of the New Zealand Department of Conservation. Pukenui has rimu forest, an important food source for the species. The first known breeding of kākāpō on Pukenui occurred in 2011, leading to two infertile eggs. [ 8 ]