Endangered Species: Brown Kiwi

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Have you ever visited New Zealand? If so, you might have seen this small bird. I have not visited New Zealand myself, but I came across some information that I had jotted down in one of my notebooks and thought I would share it here on MyLot. As some of you know, I have a special interest in “endangered species,” and used to post a lot of information on the Bubblews site. The articles were sometimes very lengthy but I will keep them much shorter here. It seems like many on MyLot like the shorter articles to read, so I will just mention a few facts that I came across from time to time, that I think you will find interesting. Then, if you want more information, you can Google the species and learn more. I’m going to post them under “Endangered Species” and name the species, so that I will have them in my documents and they will be easier for me to find later, in case I want to include them in my book I’m putting together for my grandchildren. Fact: Nine out of ten brown kiwi chicks do not survive one year. Very sad. At that rate they can soon disappear. Fact: Because of early settlers who introduced species that were not native to New Zealand, (dogs, rats, cats, goats, pigs, deer, rabbits, stoats) more than forty native species have completely died off. (3 different frogs; 1 bat; 3 different lizards and many other plants and insects.) Almost half of the native plants and animals in New Zealand are classified as at risk, which puts New Zealand at the top of the list for the most threatened wildlife, on the earth. What is happening in other parts of the world? Picture by Pixabay