The Takahe: Fifty Years of Conservation Management and Research
edited by William G. Lee and Ian G. Jamieson, 132pp limpbound, University of Otago Press, Dunedin 2001, RRP$39.95. This is a serious book about the conservation of the takahe, long believed extinct, but rediscovered in the mountains of Fiordland in 1948. The birds’ subsequent history, and efforts to develop captive populations and release them elsewhere, is documented in the words of scientists involved with these jobs. The Takahe is the product of an academic symposium, publishing the papers presented at a joint meeting of the ecological societies of Australia and New Zealand. It is not popular reading but it does summarise the plight of the takahe in a set of authoritative, illustrated papers.
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Forest and Bird, Issue 300, 1 May 2001, Page 44
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