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Meet the Locals: Conservation Week Special
Television (Full Length Episode) – 2009
The world's rarest parrot and immigrant desert "pests" feature in this Meet The Locals Conservation Week special. Presenter Nicola Toki (née Vallance) travels to Invercargill to visit rescued kākāpō chicks, before disinfecting her clothes so she can return the birds to their pest-free home on Codfish Island. Heading north, she takes to the skies to help herd Kaimanawa wild horses, which are wreaking havoc on rare plants, and joins kids on a trip to wildlife sanctuary Tiritiri Matangi. The Department of Conservation and TVNZ collaborated to make the series.
It's been a cracker year for kākāpō. Their precarious population has doubled since the recovery programme launched in 1995.– Presenter Nicola Vallance (née Toki), in 2009
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