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Why have 40% of New Zealand鈥檚 birds disappeared?
New Zealand was once a haven for countless millions of birds. So what changed? Dr James Russell, conservation biologist at the University of Auckland, tells the story of how paradise was lost.
(Image: Watercolour of three Huia birds. Credit: Johannes G. Keulemans.)
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