Kea recognised as endangered on red list of globally threatened species
(WorldNews New Zealand)

1 NEWS Forest and Bird estimate less than 7000 kea remain. The plight of the kea has been formally recognised on the world stage after an international conservation organisation for the first time listed it as being endangered. The large, green mountain parrots are famed for their curiosity and intelligence and in October were voted New Zealand`s bird of the year. But their future is in peril, with numbers once in the hundreds of thousands now dwindled to between just 3000 and 7000 birds. Already recognised as endangered in New Zealand, that status has been officially ratified by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature`s Red List, the world`s most comprehensive...