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Overseas help for endangered parrot

February 13, 2006 — Filed in: Conservation

Source: One News

Kakapo (Strigops habroptilus) from the A.I. programme in New-Zealand

New Zealand conservationists are flying in help from overseas in an effort to save the endangered Kakapo.

The birds have become increasingly infertile but it is hoped a foreign expert can inject new life into the breeding programme.

Endangered Birds Specialist Dr Juan Blanco has flown half way across the world to help solve the fertility problems of its only flightless parrot.

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