In 2010, conservationists began releasing captive-bred wētāpunga after the species survived naturally on one island; 15…
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New Zealand eradicated two rat species from 2,000-hectare Kapiti Island in 1996; over the next three years its native saddleback population more than doubled and annual growth rose from 1.3% to 33.2%
In 1996, New Zealand completed a major conservation effort with the eradication of two species of…
A British duke sent six Himalayan tahr to New Zealand in 1904; five survived the voyage, and their descendants later grew into tens of thousands that now damage fragile alpine ecosystems
The Himalayan tahr is a large, shaggy mountain ungulate native to the Himalayas that has become…