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    The Best of the Week

    May 09, 2021 3 minutes

    SATURDAY MAY 15

    Well, it is a nice change to have some local wildlife in this slot usually dominated by natural-history programmes made for the BBC. It’s the first in a four-part series covering the Predator Free 2050 project. The opening episode, entitled “Loss”, looks at what has disappeared since the arrival of humans and the introduction of rats, possums and stoats. It follows intrepid Department of Conservation staff and scientists monitoring kiwi in Fiordland and Stewart Island and its nearby wildlife sanctuary Ulva Island, as well as the efforts to save the critically endangered orange-fronted parakeet.

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