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World Service,1 min

Why have 40% of New Zealand’s birds disappeared?

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New Zealand was once a haven for countless millions of birds. So what changed? Dr James Russell, conservation biologist at the University of Auckland, tells the story of how paradise was lost. (Image: Watercolour of three Huia birds. Credit: Johannes G. Keulemans.)

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