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The Madagascar pochard doesn't have the showy good looks of some of its duck relations. But for a small group of scientists, it's an obsession. @NationalGeographic takes a look at the world's rarest duck, which is found only in Madagascar, was thought to have died out, then was rediscovered and made a comeback. As ornithologist Olivier Langrand says, if you look behind any story of saving a species, you’ll find devoted people — scientists, government officials, farmers and more. “It takes individuals to carry the torch from beginning to end.”

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flip.it · The hunt for the world’s rarest duckBy Carol Huang

I'm disappointed to read Peter Jackson is spending millions pretending you can bring an extinct species back from the past, rather than using that same money to support struggling conservation efforts working to stop living species from becoming extinct in the first place.

rnz.co.nz/news/national/566386

RNZ · Sir Peter Jackson backs project to de-extinct moa, experts cast doubtBy Middayreport, Morningreport