Kakapo breed irregularly, and the last breeding season was two years ago.

Safest place in the world -for the world's last breeding Cagot.'

Photo: Sioux Plowman Only two chicks hatched in Mangawhai's last breeding season, the lowest number in several years.

More than 75 percent of all western Pacific leatherback nesting occurs there, numbering 489 turtles in the last breeding season, the researchers said.