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Drumbeats echoed across Ngai Taporoporo o Takitumu - Takitumu Conservation Area (TCA) on International Day for Biological Diversity as the Cook Islands launched this important forest ecosystem as an ‘Other-effective area-based Conservation Measure’ (OECM). Home to the endemic Kākerōri / Rarotonga Flycatcher (Pomarea dimidiata), a bird recently brought back from the risk of extinction, the new OECM is the very first of its kind in the Pacific region.