Michele and I went to Kapiti Island today. It is currently uninhabited, but in the 1800's it was a whaling station with a population of 3500. Over the last 100 years they've made it into a nature sanctuary and eliminated all the introduced pests--goats, rats, stoats, possums. The native bush and birds have made an amazing comeback, and they're using the thriving bird populations here to reintroduce threatened birds back onto the mainland to increase their population.
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