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As the kakapo's conservation funding faces a $200,000 cut, Nikki Macdonald explores the debate about commercialisation of conservation.
Boom! Kakapo recovery programme faces $200,000 cut as sponsor seeks to withdraw after 22 years.
That news was conspicuously absent from the pithy updates regularly boomed and skraaarked by Conservation Department spokesbird Sirocco the kakapo, when cash-strapped New Zealand Aluminium Smelters announced it could no longer afford to support his species.
Surprising, given the randy green night parrot - propelled to international YouTube superstardom by trying to mate with zoologist Mark Carwardine's head - is New Zealand's second-most endangered bird.
With a total population of just 125 and a genetic curse requiring intensive breeding management, kakapo need every cent of their $935,556 rescue funds.
Continued: http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/7716027/The-commercialisation-of-conservation
Boom! Kakapo recovery programme faces $200,000 cut as sponsor seeks to withdraw after 22 years.
That news was conspicuously absent from the pithy updates regularly boomed and skraaarked by Conservation Department spokesbird Sirocco the kakapo, when cash-strapped New Zealand Aluminium Smelters announced it could no longer afford to support his species.
Surprising, given the randy green night parrot - propelled to international YouTube superstardom by trying to mate with zoologist Mark Carwardine's head - is New Zealand's second-most endangered bird.
With a total population of just 125 and a genetic curse requiring intensive breeding management, kakapo need every cent of their $935,556 rescue funds.
Continued: http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/7716027/The-commercialisation-of-conservation
More information on the kakapo (Strigops habroptila):
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