New Zealand Lazarus Effect

[birdsandbats]

New Zealand animals are making a huge comeback, thanks to the Lazarus Affect (protecting one species helps them all):

The Lazarus Effect: protect one species, resurrect a whole forest

 

[Kakapo]

Lazarus? It's has been always called Umbrella effect if I'm not wrong. A Lazarus taxon is just a species believed to be extinct rediscovered alive (such as takahe, talking about NZ species). Called so because of Lazarus, who Jesus Christ resurrected from the death in the Bible.