Kakapo (album) Kakapo (album) Kakapo is a studio album by the Japanese noise musician Merzbow. It was released on September 14, 2016 by Oaken Palace Records as an LP. The album is dedicated to the kakapo, a critically endangered parrot of New Zealand, and all profits from the release will be donated to the Kakapo Recovery program. The recording has a drone element. A track called "Kakapo 2" later appeared on the album "Hanakisasage". "Kakapo" received a positive review by Gareth Watkin for Echoes and Dust. Kez Whelan of "Terrorizer" wrote that "Kakapo" is "one of his most hypnotic and focused efforts
Kakapo established in 1995. The New Zealand Department of Conservation replaced the Wildlife Service for this task. The first action of the plan was to relocate all the remaining kakapo to suitable islands for them to breed. None of the New Zealand islands were ideal to establish kakapo without rehabilitation by extensive re-vegetation and the eradication of introduced mammalian predators and competitors. Four islands were finally chosen: Maud, Hauturu/Little Barrier, Codfish and Mana. Sixty-five kakapo (43 males, 22 females) were successfully transferred onto the four islands in five translocations. Some islands had to be rehabilitated several times when feral cats, stoats