Conservation of kakerori (Pomarea dimidiata) in the Cook Islands in 2006/07

Abstract

In a review of bird conservation problems in the South Pacific, commissioned by the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) and the International Council for Bird Preservation (now BirdLife International) in the early 1980s, Hay (1986) identified the kakerori, or Rarotonga monarch (Pomarea dimidiata), as one of the species most urgently in need of conservation management (Robertson et al. 1994).