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Mauritius: the Echo Parakeet, and what island recovery takes
An island whose endemic birds came closer to extinction than almost anywhere else, and the recovery work that followed. The Echo Parakeet is the case covered here in detail.
- The Echo Parakeet: from a dozen birds back to a population
In the 1980s the Echo Parakeet was reduced to a handful of individuals on Mauritius. What it took to reverse that, and why the recovery is instructive.