Quoting Andrew Digby

Simon Willison's Weblog shares an update from Andrew Digby on the kakapo, a critically endangered parrot. The population has reached three hundred twenty-five, as this year's record breeding season added the newly matured juveniles; in nineteen ninety-five, only fifty-one birds remained. Digby notes that recovery of critically endangered species is possible with sustained effort.

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