• 1891: Richard Henry is appointed to save the Kakapo. He moves 200 Kakapo to Resolution island but stotes manage to get onto the island and the Kakapo on the island are wiped out in 6 years.
• 1903: The NZ government moves three Kakapo to Little Barrier Island. Sadly, the three are never seen again.
• 1920's: Kakapo are now extinct in the North Island and numbers are decreasing in the south.
• 1950's: The NZ government starts sending regular expeditions to find more Kakapo.
• 1970: Conservationists find the last Kakapo in the South Island. He is a male. They name it after Richard Henry.
• 1977: The first expedition that they send to Stewart island finds 200 Kakapo but some of them get eaten by cats.
• 1982-97: Stewart island Kakapo get moved to predator free islands.
• 1989: Kakapo recovery plan established.
• 2005: Little Barrier Island and Mana Island are replaced with Chalky and Anchor Islands as Kakapo sanctuaries.
The map above shows that once there was a lot of kakapo all over NZ. Now there are only 86 on four small islands.
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