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The flightless kākāpō (Strigops habroptilus) was saved from extinction by translocating the remaining birds to offshore islands where the species had probably never occurred, an example of assisted colonisation being used in response to impacts of invasive predators. Photo credit: Neil Fitzgerald.
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A reintroduction is an attempt to re-establish a wild population of a species in a location where it used to occur. It is a form of 'conservation translocation', which also includes reinforcement of existing populations, or attemps to establish a species outside its indigenous range for conservation purposes. Conservation translocations are often p...
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... Richard Henry was appointed caretaker of stoat-free Resolution Island which was designated a reserve. With the help of his dog, Henry caught hundreds of kākāpō (Strigops habroptilus; Figure 2), a nocturnal parrot, and tokoeka (Apteryx australis), a type of kiwi, and rowed them out to an offshore island free of stoats. Unfortunately stoats swam to the island soon after and exterminated the introduced birds, but similar actions almost 100 years later saved the species from extinction ( Table 1). ...
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... the iterative process of sound planning, evidence-based decision making, and integrated management will continue to increase the positive impact conservation translocations make in the restoration of species, reduction of extinctions, and maintenance of ecological processes. Table 1 Some notable conservation translocations Date Translocation 1894 First translocations of the kākāpō (Strigops habroptilus; Figure 2) to Resolution Island in an attempt to save this flightless parrott that was rapidly declining on the New Zealand mainland due to exotic mammalian predators. This attempt failed due to stoats (Mustela erminea) colonising the island. ...
