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The Hawaiian Goose (Hardcover)
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The Hawaiian Goose (Hardcover)
Series: Poyser Monographs
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Dr Janet Kear, Assistant Director of the Wildfowl Trust and Curator
of its Martin Mere Reserve, and Professor Andrew Berger of the
University of Hawaii, have written a timely and absorbing account
of the recent history of the Hawaiian Goose, or Nene, its descent
to near extinction, its eleventh hour rescue and current
restoration to the wild. The species declined from an estimated
population of 25,000 in Hawaii in the 18th century to less than
fifty birds in the 1940s. Today, thanks largely to the extended
breeding programmes at Slimbridge and Pohakuloa, there are probably
more than 2000 Hawaiian Geese in the world. The achievement is
justly applauded and well-known, but whether this impressive
experiment in conservation has been truly successful will not be
clear until it becomes evident that the released birds can maintain
a breeding population in the wild. As the authors explain, the
outcome is far from predictable. The causes which led to the
species' decline and the hazards and difficulties faced by the
reintroduced population are discussed at length, but the core of
the book is the propagation programmes at Slimbridge and Pohakuloa,
and the problems and successes they brought during many years of
patient work. For the conservationist and aviculturalist the
accounts of captive breeding under headings such as infertility,
diet, longevity, mortality and the effects of foster mothers,
geographical latitude and genetic strain, will be essential
reading. Appropriately, Sir Peter Scott, whose imterest and
involvement in the rescue of the Hawaiian Goose was of prime
importance, is one of the artists whose drawings supplement the
text. There is also a colour frontispiece and 24 monochrome plates.
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