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With a growing kākāpō population, they did expect to see more deaths. Chances of survival for the large, flightless parrots was much higher than under normal conditions, as they were closely monitored and catered for, but as populations grew, nesting spots and resources were in demand. Matakana was one of the kākāpō affected by aspergillosis, and treated at the Wildlife Hospital in Dunedin, where she became well known for her suspicious glares at the team whenever she was approached. Pōtonga was a member of the Wind Dynasty, one of matriarch Nora's great-grandsons. Brodie Philp/Sup...

© Mark Carwardine Siroccco trying to mate with Mark Carwardine while filming BBC TV series Last Chance to See with Stephen Fry Sign up for our daily newsletter of the top stories in Courier country Thank you for signing up to The Courier daily newsletter Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Ahead of an RSGS talk, Michael Alexander speaks to zoologist and conservationist Mark Carwardine about the stark threat to global wildlife – and why he hasn’t given up hope. It was the moment that a rare kakapo bird called Sirocco hopped on to zoologist Mark Carwardine’s he...

This article was first published in Lonely Planet's Natural World, published October 2020. Few places match the natural majesty of New Zealand’s South Island with, from top to bottom, beaches, whales, glaciers and waterfalls. New Zealand’s highest mountains are here: Aoraki/Mt Cook in the middle of the island, Mt Aspiring, and Mitre Peak, the triangular talisman marking the mouth of Milford Sound. Keep going, past the adventure towns of Wānaka and Queenstown and you’ll reach Fiordland. This craggy corner of New Zealand is a vast national park and Unesco World Heritage area, coverin...

Zosterops meeki. And it looks like we’ve done so just in time, because two of the species – the Tagula Butcherbird and Tagula White-eye – are Near Threatened. Logging, agricultural expansion and commercial gold prospecting are destroying their rainforest habitats. These vital new discoveries came in large part from research lead by one scientist, William Goulding, whose ambition is to improve knowledge of all the endemic bird species of Tagula and the wider Louisiade Archipelago. His research projects employ and train local people and include public education and awareness-raising campa...