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Prehistoric bird once thought extinct returns to New Zealand wild (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 2 years ago by anon6789@beehaw.org to c/science@beehaw.org
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In New Zealand, the return of wild takahē populations marks a cautiously celebrated conservation victory, and the return of one of the world’s rarest creatures. The birds had been formally declared extinct in 1898, their already-reduced population devastated by the arrival of European settlers’ animal companions: stoats, cats, ferrets and rats. After their rediscovery in 1948, their numbers are now at about 500, growing at about 8% a year.

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[–] anon6789@beehaw.org 6 points 2 years ago (21 children)

I'm from the US, and usually all we hear about Australia and New Zealand is of the scary, deadly animals. I've been happy to see so many articles on Lemmy about all the work they are doing on endangered animals like this bird and the bandicoots.

I'm also surprised that so many of these programs seem to involve indigenous people. I don't know much about that part of the world, but I wish we would involve our native people in things like this. It feels we still keep ourselves cut off from each other. It makes all these feel good animal stories into feel good people stories.

[–] snaptastic@beehaw.org 7 points 2 years ago

The deadly animals are from Australia, not New Zealand.

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