Back From The Brink: Black Robins
1980 • New Zealand
The recovery of the Chatham Islands black robin from the brink of extinction is an internationally renowned conservation success story. In 1980 there were only five black robins in the world, with just a single breeding pair left…. The outlook was bleak, but a dedicated team of New Zealand Wildlife Service staff took the daring step of cross-fostering eggs and young to another species to boost productivity... The fostering programme used to save the black robin was such a fantastic success that it has been used as a case model on how to save endangered birds around the world.
“The Big Kill” By Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 2014, . & “Chatham Islands black robin” Department of Conservation, New Zealand .
Courtesy of frances schmechel <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Black_Robin_on_Rangatira_Island.jpg>.
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