Kakapo: Rescued From The Brink Of Extinction

Author: Alison Ballance

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  • : $24.99 NZD
  • : 9781877517273
  • : Potton & Burton Limited
  • : Craig Potton Publishing
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  • : September 2018
  • : 250mm X 200mm
  • : New Zealand
  • : 49.99
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  • : Alison Ballance
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  • : Hardback
  • : revised edition
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  • : English
  • : 598.710993
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  • : 276
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Barcode 9781877517273
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Description

Kakapo follows the fall and rise of one of the world's most unusual birds, from the brink of extinction, through a roller-coaster ride of hope and loss. One of New Zealand's most threatened species, these charismatic yet mysterious night parrots, are now found only on a small number of predator-free island sanctuaries in New Zealand and have been the focus of a remarkable world renowned New Zealand conservation effort since 1977. Kakapo: Rescued from the brink of extinction is a revised edition of the 2010 title of the same name, that includes all of the up-to-date details of the ongoing, innovative hard work of the Kakapo Recovery Programme, New Zealand's flagship threatened-species conservation story. After nearly 30 years of intensive management by the New Zealand Department of Conservation kakapo team, there are exciting times ahead for kakapo, as the summer of 2019 will be the biggest kakapo breeding season on record. The author, Alison Balance, has provided an informative and entertaining mix of hard facts, history, and accounts of the daily and seasonal routines of kakapo and their minders. This beautiful illustrated and inspiring book will appeal to anyone with an interest in ornithology and the natural world of New Zealand.

Awards

Winner of the 2011 Royal Society of New Zealand Science Book Prize

Author description

Alison Ballance is a zoologist, award-winning wildlife film-maker, natural history writer and passionate story-teller. She worked as a documentary film-maker and writer from 1990 to 2008, and currently works for Radio New Zealand National in Wellington as co-producer and co-presenter of the weekly one-hour science and environment programme 'Our Changing World'. She has produced more than 16 television documentaries, written 27 books, and recorded and presented about 140 radio stories. Alison has been involved with the kakapo conservation programme since 1994. She produced a TV documentary on the subject, 'To Save the Kakapo', in 1998, and has written two books that cover aspects of the kakapo story: Hoki: The story of a kakapo (1997), and Don Merton: The man who saved the black robin (2007).