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Central to raising public awareness of conservation was the saving of the Chatham Island black robin. It involved transferring the two last pairs of black robins from their deteriorating habitat on Little Mangere Island to Mangere, in September 1976. Watch Don Merton, an officer with the Wildlife Service, entice a robin into a net.
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