Rare Birds and Ripe Opportunities in Kenya
Hope sometimes arrives in very small packages, like the 10 Taita thrushes that were recently released in the tiny forest fragment known as Chawia Forest in the Taita Hills of Kenya.
That modest addition to the forest’s Taita thrush (Turdus helleri) population – which had been estimated at around 10 – represented a potential milestone for a species that is listed as Critically Endangered (CR) on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species and whose total population is estimated at 1,350. It also marked the cumulative impact of years of conservation efforts in the Taita Hills.
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That modest addition to the forest’s Taita thrush (Turdus helleri) population – which had been estimated at around 10 – represented a potential milestone for a species that is listed as Critically Endangered (CR) on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species and whose total population is estimated at 1,350. It also marked the cumulative impact of years of conservation efforts in the Taita Hills.
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