Kakapo numbers rise to 252

The Kakapo Recovery team are celebrating the results of the second biggest breeding season which has seen the Kakapo numbers rise to a hugely impressive 252. Here's the Otago Daily Times article.

Conservation Minister Poto Williams said she was pleased with the numbers as there were now more of the birds than there had been for almost 50 years.
"There is an all-hands-on-deck approach to saving kakapo.
"This has been the second-biggest breeding season, leading to the highest number of birds since the 1970s, but we can’t take our eye off the ball."
The season’s 55 kakapo chicks were added to the official population only when they reached 150 days old, she said.