A ‘real journey’ Driven towards species protection
WHEN RICHARD HENRY, New Zealand’s ‘grandfather of conservation’, was in Tamatea/Dusky Sound in 1894, he said the sound of kākāpō booming was like distant thunder. In four years, with a small dinghy and the help of his sniffer dog, Henry moved 572 kiwi and kākāpō from rat and stoat-infested forests to Resolution Island, believed to be predator-free. Tragically, it wasn’t.
More than a hundred years on, the battle for the birds has been reignited. But while resources now are greater
