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Takahē : "prehistoric-looking" birds released into wild in New Zealand - BBC Newsround (www.bbc.co.uk)
submitted 6 days ago by absGeekNZ to c/newzealand
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/32975689

Older article (2023), but sharing for those unawares.

The birds - which have been around since the prehistoric Pleistocene era - were officially declared extinct in 1898.

After their rediscovery in 1948, conservationists began collecting and incubating eggs from wild takahē, to prevent them from being eaten by predators

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[–] deadbeef79000 3 points 6 days ago

TIL by implication that "in the wild" is different to "in a sanctuary".

There's been takahē on Tiri Tiri Mātangi island for years (since at least the 90's) but that's a predator free island sanctuary.

Super news!