“Where the Heck Are the Snares? The Story of Ecological Recovery in the New Zealand Sub-Antarctic” will be presented by Andrea Tuttle at the Redwood Region Audubon Society’s next monthly meeting on Nov. 16 at Six Rivers Masonic Lodge, 251 Bayside Road, Arcata.
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 campaigns among island communities.
3. Junín Grebe swims against tide of extinction