The population of New Zealand's kakapo, an endangered flightless parrot, has increased 25% in the last year to 252 birds following a good breeding season and success with artificial insemination ...

A record number of endangered flightless Kakapo birds have hatched during New Zealand's unusually long 2019 breeding season, dramatically boosting the numbers of the rare native parrot.

The population of the kakapo, which is the world’s heaviest parrot, is now at its highest number since the 1970s. "There were just 86 kakapo when I first started working as a kakapo ranger in 2002.