Conservation / Environment

Tiaki: saving our unloved endemic species

11:30 am on 22 November 2022

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An artist is bringing some of our lesser-known endangered animals to the fore.

Seventy percent of our animals are endemic. But four-thousand of them are facing extinction.

Beautifully illustrated book Tiaki comes to us from designer and native-bird enthusiast Jean Donaldson.

In it Jean shifts the focus from kakapo and kiwi to endangered gravel maggots, sea slugs, moths and mudfish.

Jean tells Kathryn it's a conservation call to arms for pre-teens and teenagers.