Prize book

18/05/2011 9:45:00 a.m.

Wellington writer Alison Ballance

A book by a Wellington author about New Zealand’s rarest parrot, the kakapo, has won the Royal Society of New Zealand’s 2011 science book prize.
Kakapo - Rescued from the Brink of Extinction by broadcaster and zoologist Alison Ballance tells the story how how one kakapo was saved from possible extinction through the work of the kakapo conservation programme.
Ballance is an award winning wildlife film maker and natural history writer. She worked as a documentary film maker and writer from 1990 to 2008 and currently works for Radio New Zealand. She has produced more than 16 television documentaries, written 27 books and presented about 140 radio stories. She has been involved in the kakapo conservation programme since 1994 and has produced a TV documentary on the subject and written two other books covering aspects of the kakapo story. She is currently on a biodiscovery expedition to the Kermadec Islands.
The Royal Society of New Zealand established the science book prize in 2009 to encourage the writing, publishing and reading of good and accessible science books.
The two other books shortlisted for this year’s award were Poles Apart: Beyond the Shouting, Who is Right about Climatic Change? by Gareth Morgan and John McCrystal, and North Pole South Pole: The Epic Quest to Solve the Great Mystery of Earth’s Magnetism by Gillian Turner.

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