Photo: Sean McGrath / Department of Conservation
Eggs from the country's rarest parakeet, the kΔkΔriki karaka, have been retrieved from a nest inside a Nelson sanctuary and flown to Christchurch in a bid to help the species recover.
More than 100 kΔkΔriki karaka, or orange-fronted parakeet, were translocated into Nelson's Brook WaimΔrama Sanctuary between 2021 and 2023, and their numbers have since doubled.
The kΔkΔriki karaka is critically endangered and its estimated there are up to 450 birds left in the wild. There are two remaining wild populations in alpine beech forest valleys in Canterbury, the Hawdon and Hurunui South Branch.
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