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Escaped pet parrots threaten New Zealand’s vulnerable native birds – why a ban is the best solution

Margaret Stanley, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau; Ellery McNaughton, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau; Josie Galbraith, Auckland War Memorial Museum, and Rachel Fewster, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau

The pet trade has spurred a wave of bird imports, leading to escapes or even deliberate releases of exotic species into the wild. New research reveals the threat they now pose to native birds.
Giant otters were prized for their dense fur. ostill / shutterstock

Revealed: how a hunting boom left the Amazon basin with ‘empty rivers’

Carlos A. Peres, University of East Anglia; André Pinassi Antunes, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA); Glenn Shepard Jr, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém, and Rachel Fewster, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau

Land animals were able to find refuge in the depths of the forest. But aquatic species weren’t so lucky.

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