Fletch
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You get gold fever.
Except you get tin fever.
Not as sexy, though, is it?
But when they arrived there and they needed to, like... It's not as hot.
Not as sexy.
When they arrived there and they needed to, like, set up camp and settlement...
They were like, oh, we could cut this stuff down.
It's going to be quite hard.
We'll just chuck a match to it.
So they just burnt all this area that then didn't end up using it.
And the scrub and everything that came back apparently was much better environment for the kฤkฤpล.
So in 1977, in the Tin Range, kakapo numbers were discovered down there when they thought they were extinct in the area.
So they may have accidentally improved the conditions for one of the world's rarest birds.
Do you need a warrant of fitness there?
Yes.
Surely not.
No.
450 full-time residents, twice as many cars, one mechanic.
And apparently the police officers got, like, not much to do because...
It's short island and everybody knows everybody and crime's low.