It's so cooked that the conservation system in Aotearoa New Zealand is so broken that government agencies need fund raising assistance to be able to deliver basic conservation services. "A fundraising campaign to save the southern New Zealand dotterel from extinction has been launched after feral cat predators killed at least one of the 126 birds remaining at Rakiura/Stewart Island." Fundraising campaign launched to save southern dotterel from extinction | Stuff.co.nz https://www.stuff.co.nz/southland-times/300983537/fundraising-campaign-launched-to-save-southern-dotterel-from-extinction