The South Island Robins are an evolved form of Australian ansestors who moved to the islands they are today. These birds at one point were struggling for exsitstance. Inbreeding was the problem. The population of the species was at a low. There was a lack of choice of mate, there were problems in mating, defects in newly birthed Robins immune systems, and many failed hatchings. Researchers have come to discover a way to keep them from extinction. Species were translocated from island to island. 15 females from Allports Island were moved to Motorua , and 10 from Mortorua moved to Allport. in the short-term it would stop the species from going extinct, but in the long term the species would just have inbreeding problems again. So in a way the experiment found a positive and a negitive but when it comes to loosing species its best to find only positives. The more species we lose the more unbalanced our world becomes.
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