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GUYANA–Simply Delicious Birding!

10,000 Birds

Guyana is probably most famous in birding circles for the unlikely discovery of a population of critically endangered Red Siskins in early 2000. Decades of trapping for the pet industry drove them to the brink of extinction, and their survival into the future was seriously in doubt. Giant waterlilies at Karanambu Ranch.

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Can Stewart Island become Pest Free?

10,000 Birds

Since then 60 islands have been cleared of rodents, from the sub-tropical Kermadecs to the sub-Antarctic islands, including the ambitious undertaking that was Campbell Island. Of particular interest would be the commitment of the islanders to give up having cats as pets.