New Zealand conservationists have been fighting for years to keep the kakapo, the world’s only flightless parrot, from disappearing, with intensive conservation efforts.

However, the nocturnal and reclusive New Zealand native bird’s fate is teetering toward survival after an unlikely conservation effort that has coaxed the population from 50 to more than 200 over ...

World’s only flightless parrot could be saved from extinction after unusual mating boom - New Zealand conservationists have ...

The world’s only flightless parrot, New Zealand’s kakapo, is edging back from extinction as conservationists raise numbers from 50 to over 200 and a bumper rimu fruit crop triggers a rare breeding ...