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A 'mega' event in New Zealand’s forests could decide the fate of the world’s fattest parrot

Quick Take The kākāpō is a flightless parrot inhabiting just a few islands off New Zealand’s coast. Females breed only when ...
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Officials release hundreds of traps in forests to fight detrimental threat: 'They are very smart'

Is it ethical to kill millions of invasive predators in order to give native species a chance to survive? This has been the quandary facing wildlife experts in New Zealand, which has adopted an ...
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Officials announce aggressive plan to eradicate wild 'killers': 'We've got to get rid of some of these'

"An important part of the solution." Officials announce aggressive plan to eradicate wild 'killers': 'We've got to get rid of some of these' first appeared on The Cool Down.
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Officials face backlash over aggressive plan to eradicate wild 'killers': 'This approach … guarantees failure'

"[This] is not a solution — it's an illusion of action." Officials face backlash over aggressive plan to eradicate wild ...
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Pushing down the cost of predator control one sausage at a time

Technology may be finally shifting the balance in preventing the extinction of some of NZ’s most vulnerable native species ...