HK Scientist Puts Hope In Nest Boxes To Save Endangered Cockatoos

Nestled among the boughs of a decades-old cotton tree in Hong Kong is a nest box designed for the yellow-crested cockatoo, of which only 1,200 to 2,000 remain in the world (Credit: AFP)

Above the teeming shopping streets of Hong Kong's Causeway Bay district, a fight to save one of the world's most endangered species is unfolding high in the branches of a decades-old cotton tree.

Nestled among its sprawling boughs is a nest box designed for the yellow-crested cockatoo, of which only 1,200 to 2,000 remain in the world.