Good News Notes: “Thanks to an unwitting intervention by the Duke of Edinburgh 60 years ago, the world’s rarest marsupial has come back from the very brink of extinction. Gilbert’s potoroo — a nocturnal, fungi-loving rat–kangaroo — is named for English naturalist John Gilbert, who first documented them on a visit to Australia in 1838. By the 1870s,…
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Kakī population soars under predator control
Good News Notes: “A 40 year protection programme for the black stilt – or Kakī – has seen the birds’ adult population rise by 31 percent recently. They are only found in the upper Waitaki and Mackenzie Basins. Their numbers have been boosted by predator control and a captive breeding programme that released 184 juvenile…