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Haurongo: Merton, Donald Vincent

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NZ On Screen

Watch documentaries about Don Merton’s work saving the tīeke (saddleback), kākāpō and Chatham Island black robin from extinction.

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Ballance, A. Don Merton: the man who saved the black robin. Auckland, 2007

Ballance, A. Kākāpō: rescued from the brink of extinction. Second edition, Nelson, 2018

Butler, D. and D. Merton. The black robin: the saving of the world’s most endangered bird. Oxford, 1992

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Alison Ballance. 'Merton, Donald Vincent', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 2022. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/biographies/231769/sources (accessed 4 June 2026).