shedding new light on the demise of NZ’s moa can help other flightless birds
- Written by Damien Fordham, Associate Professor of Global Change Ecology, Adelaide University
Paul Martinson / Te Papa, CC BY-NC-NDNew Zealand was once home to giant flightless birds called moa. They had grown accustomed to life without predators. So the arrival of humans in the mid-13th century presented a massive – and ultimately insurmountable – challenge to their existence.
Moa were unable to cope with even low levels of...





