Scientists Use Artificial Insemination to Boost Kākāpō Numbers

Scientists use artificial insemination to boost kākāpō numbers

Kākāpō numbers have bounced back from just 51 birds in the 1990s, to 242 today.

Can AI - the other one - help save the kākāpō?

Artificial insemination may allow conservation scientists to get kakapo booming through New Zealand’s forests again.    “Two of the main challenges facing the critically endangered kākāpō are low productivity (only about 40% of eggs hatch) and high levels of genetic inbreeding,” says Dr Andrew Digby, Science Advisor, Kākāpō/Takahē, New Zealand Department of Conservation. That’s were artificial insemination comes in. The booming call of world’s h…