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Scientists devised a cheap, ingenious trick to save this bird from a blood-sucking maggot – and it works brilliantly

  • Written by Fernanda Alves, PhD student, Australian National University
Scientists devised a cheap, ingenious trick to save this bird from a blood-sucking maggot – and it works brilliantlyFrancesco Veronesi / flickr

Saving endangered species from extinction is a challenging job. It requires creative, affordable and effective interventions. In a rare good news story for conservation, we came up with one such method.

We want to save the forty-spotted pardalote – an extremely rare Tasmanian bird about the size of a ping pong ball....

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