The Tavake
And its future, a challenge for Rapa Nui
In August of 2016, we came to Rapa Nui and, with the local expert Pedro Lazo, visited the colony of Tavakes at Rano Raraku. We carefully went into the legendary crater, where we could see more than 20 active nests, most of them with adults incubating their eggs and a few with chicks ready to fly and leave the nest. Good news: the birds are reproducing! However, we returned two months later to a scene of desolation. There was no trace of adults or chicks. Suddenly, the nesting season had come to an end. What happened?
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