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After a 100-year absence and a concerted restoration project to revive its south Pacific habitat, the endangered Polynesian storm-petrel – a ground nesting seabird also referred to as white-throated – has finally made its return to Kamaka Island in French Polynesia.
Once widespread across the south Pacific, the Polynesian storm-petrel suffered a stark decline in population due to increased competition and over-predation from invasive species, including rats which have posed a significant threat to the seabird’s survival.
So intense has this threat been that the Polynesian storm-petrel had been driven to the very brink of extinction, with somewhere between just 250 to 1,000 mature individuals left in the wild.
Original Article: Polynesian storm-petrel returns home after 100 years
