Sunday, March 14, 2010
“They are our national monuments. They are our Tower of London, our Arc de Triomphe, our pyramids. We don’t have this ancient architecture that we can be proud of and swoon over in wonder, but what we do have is something that is far, far older than that. No one else has kiwi, no one else has kakapo. They have been around for millions of years, if not thousands of millions of years. And once they are gone, they are gone forever. And it’s up to us to make sure they never die out.” Don Merton, on New Zealand’s extraordinary, irreplaceable fauna, in the New Zealand Listener, April 23-29, 2005.  For more on Merton’s role in saving the Kakapo and the Black Robin, see Today’s Endangered All-Star trading card below.
Posted at 1:46pm Tags: Don Merton Kakapo New Zealand Listener Black Robin

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