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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Helen Pilcher

Can hope save the planet? An endangered parrot that is beating the odds can help us find out

A male kākāpō peers out of a bush on Stewart Island, New Zealand.
New Zealand’s kākāpō, which was once close to extinction. Photograph: Nature Picture Library/Alamy

The new Living Planet Report is out. Published every two years, it assesses the health of the natural world and, historically, it’s made for gloomy reading.

Take 2024’s report, which showed global wildlife populations had plummeted by 73% in 50 years and that ecosystems were being pushed toward collapse.

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