The Credits
Don Merton
of the New
Zealand Department of Conservation graciously provided the
photographs for this site. He also provided a heap of liteature about
the kakapo, as well as moral support in the creation of this site from
the beginning, in 1994.
Rebecca Dennett
of Kakapo Rescue provided a generous amount of
her time and materials about the kakapo. She has been a wealth of
enthusiasm and inspiration. She was the first person to provide
information about the kakapos for this site. If you live in the U.S. and
desire to know anything about the kakapo, contact Rebecca at Kakapo
Rescue.
Mary Cresswell
provided the comprehensive list of references, compiled for the
New Zealand Department of Conservation.
She patiently waited and resupplied information as our Macintosh here at The Fabulous Kakapo
repeatedly mangled her emailed files.
Shayne Waldron
sends us URLS for news updates. You can thank Shane for the timely news
links.
Itsuro Imai
translated the *entire* site into Japanese, and mirrors the Fabulous Kakapo in Japan. What a feat! Check out the
rest of Itsuro's site, "M&I's 1997 Bird Room" in either English or Japanese.
It is beautiful.
José Santos
translated the site into Portuguese! Look at his work on the Portuguese
Parrot Breeder Assotiation web site for more great parrot
information, and nice pictures! In Portuguese.
Björn Franke
He helped translate the site into German. Without him we couldn't
have translated it so quickly. Many thanks to Björn.
Patrick Enger
Patrick's most important contribution has been setting up the domain
kakapo.net in 1999, and giving this web site a truly international
place to be! In the middle of 1998 Patrick had the idea to translate
the Kakapo site into German. After he received the go ahead from
Rebecca in October 1998, he and Björn translated the entire site, so
that people who don't speak English can read this interesting
information about the Kakapos - with the hope that we can keep the
kakapos alive for a long time.
Rebecca Bateman
Rebecca built this site in 1994, and has been working on the
writing, design, HTML, and research ever since. Trying to explain
why she did this is like trying to tell someone why a butterfly's
wing is beautiful, why you shouldn't smash the vase, why, as Wordsworth
put it, "Even a mouse can stagger sextillions of infidels". We live
around incredibly amazing creatures.
Yet we forget. We think we know what they are and do. Some are lost as time passes, and hey, who really cares about another bird, or bear, or insect anyway? Well, we should. If you look more closely at these creatures, you'll be surprised. There are weird and wonderful things going on right under our noses.