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Inside New Zealand’s radical plan to save its native birds

It’s been called “the most ambitious conservation project attempted anywhere in the world”— will it actually work?

Evan Hamon, a member of the Ngati Porou ki Hauraki tribe and operational manager of the Te Ranga Wairua Trust, works with the Maori-led organization to create a trap-based “virtual barrier” to prevent predators from crossing New Zealand’s Coromandel Peninsula. His mission is “to save our forest,” he says. “The animals keep the forest alive.”

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/new-zealand-birds-invasive-predator-eradication

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