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HK Scientist Puts Hope In Nest Boxes To Save Endangered Cockatoos

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Nestled among the boughs of a decades-old cotton tree in Hong Kong is a nest box designed for the yellow-crested cockatoo, of which only 1,200 to 2,000 remain in the world AFP Above the teeming shopping streets of Hong Kong's Causeway Bay district, a fight to save one of the world's most endangered species is unfolding high in the branches of a decades-old cotton tree. Nestled among its sprawling boughs is a nest box designed for the yellow-crested cockatoo, of which only 1,200 to 2,000 remain in the world. Although the birds are native to East Timor and Indonesia, one-tenth of those left are found in Hong Kong -- the "largest cohesive remaining wild population" globally, according to Astrid Andersson, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Hong Kong.

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