🦜 One of the rarest lives on Earth

Kakapo

Strigops habroptilus · ~250 alive

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Kakapo

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A flightless, moss-green, night-loving parrot from New Zealand that smells of honey and can live 90 years. Every single kakapo has a name and its own team of humans. The count climbs chick by chick.

For young readers

The kakapo is a chubby green parrot from New Zealand that cannot fly and smells like honey. It nearly disappeared, but rangers know every bird by name and the numbers are slowly growing.

Become their guardian

In the app, you can press and hold to take a quiet pledge for the kakapo. From that day, when good news comes about them - and it does come - it is your news too.

Stand for the kakapo. Open the app