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Alison Ballance

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  • Science and Environment Radio Producer, Freelance
New Zealand
As seen in: New Zealand Herald, Radio New Zealand (RNZ), Scoop, Otago Daily Times, The Spinoff, Southland Express, Our Changing World
Nature writer & broadcaster | Takahē bit.ly/3NGhPSB | Kākāpō bit.ly/3JKKEw8 | NZ’s Great White Sharks bit.ly/3D1vUVH | ex RNZ Our Changing World @RNZScience
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A clifftop rescue adds to kākāpō chick numbers

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By Alison Ballance Verified
| Radio New Zealand (RNZ) Verified
Days of tunnelling, an uncertain outcome, a welcome find - it has been high drama on Te Kākahu / Chalky Island as the 2026 kākāpō breeding season comes to a close. At the end of March the Department of Conservation's (DOC) Kākāpō Recovery Programme announced that this year was officially the biggest kākāpō breeding season on record.
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Over 100 kākāpō chicks hatch in record-breaking breeding season Original

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By Alison Ballance Verified, Claire Concannon
| Radio New Zealand (RNZ) Verified
Follow Kākāpō Files on Apple, Spotify, iHeartRadio or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Kākāpō are one of the rarest birds in New Zealand, with an adult population of just 235 individuals. Imagine then, the pressure on Auckland Zoo vet Adam Naylor when he arrived at a nest to discover a young chick, named Huhu-A3-2026, looking floppy and an unhealthy purple colour. "My vet training kicked in, and I started doing some very tiny CPR," Adam told the Kākāpō Files podcast.
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Our Changing World: Getting ready for H5N1 bird flu

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By Alison Ballance Verified
| Radio New Zealand (RNZ) Verified
Five years after Covid-19 reached New Zealand shores, we are bracing for the arrival of another deadly virus: a strain of bird flu called H5N1. Follow Our Changing World on Apple, Spotify, iHeartRadio or wherever you listen to your podcasts The current bird flu pandemic started in Asia in 2020, when a low pathogenic strain of H5N1 mutated into a high pathogenic strain. Usually, high pathogenic strains causing illness and death are confined to domestic poultry like chickens and ducks.
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