Person online: Normalize self-care.

Statistician: Ok, the average amount of self-care is now zero.

In 1983, Jorge Luis Borges was one more in the long line of authors that referred to "The [Falklands, insert your conflict here] thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb". Very Borgesian.

Now we can say The Iran thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2019/05/23/comb/

On Friday I was lucky to get a tour of the Isaac Conservation Park, west of Ōtautahi-Christchurch city, NZ. It was set up by Sir Neil and Lady Diana Isaac, who had a vision of channelling their business success in quarrying and construction into nature conservation.

While the Isaacs have passed away, the still-successful Isaac Construction company operates under the Isaac Conservation & Wildlife Charitable Trust. The Trust uses proceeds from the company to fund conservation and heritage preservation work.

They also fund postgraduate research, which is why I was there. We're grateful they're funding the Master of Science student Kate McDowell at #LincolnUniversityNZ. Kate is modelling the population dynamics of the critically endangered orange-fronted kakariki (parakeet).

Orange-fronted kakariki still exist in the wild because of the Isaac Conservation Park. All the wild birds now are descended from captive reared birds and the wild population is still in a precarious state.

The Isaac centre is also rearing other critically endangered NZ birds, including the kakī-NZ black stilts and tuturuatu-Shore plovers. They work closely with the Department of Conservation to release captive birds back into the wild.

It's really important work and I tip my hat to the foresight and vision of Neil and Diana Isaac. Business owners have the power to do a lot of good in the world.

https://isaacconservation.org.nz/

#conservation #biodiversity #nz #birds #nature