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The Kiwi to Success
New Zealanders seek to save endangered kiwi bird |
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28 Dec 2007 |
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| Posted at 12:24 PM on 28 Dec 2007 Since humans began populating New Zealand, some 75 percent of the islands' indigenous bird species have gone extinct. Due to habitat loss and nonnative predators, it looks as though the same fate may befall the kiwi, New Zealand's iconic flightless bird. Kiwi populations are estimated to be declining by 2 to 5 percent each year; surveys suggest that in the wild, only one in 20 kiwi chicks survi ... |
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| Topics: endangered species, New Zealand, news, wildlife (all these topics) |
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