Kakapo “not worth saving”

By Birding-Aus, on April 14th, 2011

http://www.theage.com.au/environment/animals/kiwis-in-a-flap-after-scientist-proclaims-endangered-bird-is-not-worth-saving-20110414-1dfe2.html

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1 comment to Kakapo “not worth saving”

• Glenn Ehmke

  April 15, 2011 at 11:21 pm

  I’m sure the media coverage doesn’t do this research full justice, but I do wonder why we need a mathematics professor to tell us populations are at greater risk of getting to zero when their numbers are closer to zero? Maybe this isn’t such ground-breaking research… PS how do you think 16,000+ people have voted on the Wellington papers question “Should we abandon efforts to save the Kakapo?” http://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/4879292/Let-wonderfully-weird-kakapo-die-scientist