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| | JYI Volume Four Features: A Biodiversity Success Story on Tiritiri Matangi Island, New Zealand |
 | | New Zealand sanctuaries are especially important because over 90% of the country's insects and marine molluscs, 80% of its trees, ferns, and flowering plants (including a sponge that produces a cancer-fighting substance), 25% of its bird species, and all of its reptiles are found nowhere else on Earth. |
 | | Unlike similar projects on other off-shore islands, Tiritiri Matangi is an open sanctuary, which means that its over 20,000 annual visitors can now admire the results of efforts by the Department of Conservation, the Supporters of Tiritiri Matangi Inc., and volunteers. |
 | | With much of the habitat restored on Tiritiri Matangi, the focus now is on its maintenance toward a naturally-sustainable state and on actively attempting to breed more endangered species there. |
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