A large mechanised grebe is a part of comic John Oliver’s “international marketing campaign” to stack New Zealand’s Bird of the Century competitors.
Photo: Screengrab / Last Week Tonight present
People around the globe have been flocking to vote for his or her favorite feathered fauna in Forest and Bird’s Bird of the Century competitors.
Hundreds of hundreds of votes have been solid, overwhelming the organisation. As a end result, the announcement of the winner has been delayed.
Last yr the votes solely topped out at simply over 50,000.
This comes after comic John Oliver launched a global marketing campaign to get the Pūteketeke, the Australasian Crested Grebe elected.
Australasian crested grebe.
Photo: RNZ / Alison Ballance
He known as his marketing campaign “alarmingly aggressive,” placing up posters round New Zealand saying Pūteketeke as ‘Lord of the Wings,’ with billboards in cities equivalent to Mumbai, Paris andTokyo.
Forest and Bird chief govt Nicola Toki informed Morning Report total, the keenness within the competitors has been a blessing.
“Right now, the whole world and particularly New Zealand is going through a biodiversity disaster and a part of that disaster is folks not feeling related sufficient or having the ability to rejoice the issues that make our place so particular,” stated Toki.
“The extra folks speaking about our native wildlife in New Zealand and the way essential that’s, significantly off the again of one other sort of election, is nice to me.”
Toki stated her group are working across the clock to type by means of each single vote, with the winner introduced after Wednesday morning.
