Imagine leaving everything behind, moving to a remote island, and living there mostly alone for more than a decade to help save a bird few people then valued. That is what Richard Henry did in New Zealand. He took his rowing boat and transported hundreds of flightless and ground-dwelling birds called kākāpō to a far-off sanctuary island, hoping to save them from extinction. According to a landmark review of kākāpō conservation published in Bird Conservation International by researchers Mick Clout and Don Merton, this early rescue mission became one of the world's first real attempts at what scientists now call conservation translocation.
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