SCIENCE + ANIMALS + NATURE — Page 6

THE PARROT SAID NO.

The world’s weirdest parrot refused to go extinct.

New Zealand’s critically endangered kākāpō population has reached 325, after a record 90 chicks joined the official count this season. The recovery program began in 1995 with just 51 birds. Extremely round bird: still here.

SOURCENew Zealand Department of Conservation / Kākāpō Recovery Programme

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ANIMALS

RELEASE DAY. TEARS INVOLVED.

ANIMALS

Crush went home. Everyone cried.

Crush, a loggerhead found cold-stunned and nearly lifeless on a Jersey beach in January, spent months in rehabilitation before being flown to the Azores, fitted with a satellite tag, and released back into the Atlantic. Good turtle. Good humans. Everybody go home.

SOURCELittlefeet Environmental / SEA LIFE Weymouth / Channel 103

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