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    Donald Vincent Merton QSM CF (22 February 1939 – 10 April 2011) was a New Zealand conservationist best known for saving the black robin from extinction...
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  • Merton is a surname of English origin. Notable people with the surname include: Alice Merton (born 1993), German singer-songwriter Don Merton (1939–2011)...
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    Loder Cup Wellington Conservation Awards The Don Merton Conservation Pioneer Award (named after Don Merton) Acclimatisation societies in New Zealand Whaling...
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  • Robert King Merton (born Meyer Robert Schkolnick; July 4, 1910 – February 23, 2003) was an American sociologist who is considered a founding father of...
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    The London Borough of Merton (/ˈmɜːrtən/ ) is a London borough in London, England. The borough was formed under the London Government Act 1963 in 1965...
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    first scientific observations of kākāpō booming. These observations led Don Merton to speculate for the first time that the kākāpō had a lek breeding system...
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  • Archie McIndoe – pioneer plastic surgeon Tracey McIntosh – sociologist Don Merton – conservationist Brian Molloy – botanist Pérrine Moncrieff – ornithologist...
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  • "MK Dons agree to return Wimbledon trophies to Merton – and sanction amendments to football statistics" "Football – My Club – Milton Keynes – Merton given...
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    survived on Little Mangere Island. They were saved from extinction by Don Merton and his Wildlife Service team, and by "Old Blue", the last remaining fertile...
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  • rare wildlife, mountains and nature, and a biography of conservationist Don Merton. She was a finalist at both the New Zealand Post’s Book Awards and the...
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  • The Black–Scholes /ˌblæk ˈʃoʊlz/ or Black–Scholes–Merton model is a mathematical model for the dynamics of a financial market containing derivative investment...
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    documented conservation success story, due in a large part to the efforts of Don Merton, is the saving of the black robin on the Chatham Islands. Another key...
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  • of Women Airforce Service Pilots during World War II, heart failure. Don Merton, 72, New Zealand conservationist. Mikhail Rusyayev, 46, Russian footballer...
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    in 1964 by the New Zealand Wildlife Service, including Brian Bell and Don Merton, to rescue the snipe by transferring individuals to a rat-free island...
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  • known for his taxonomy of vertebrate fossils at the La Brea Tar Pits Don Merton (1939–2011), New Zealand conservationist who saved the black robin from...
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    professional association football club based in Wimbledon, London Borough of Merton, London. The team compete in EFL League Two, the fourth level of the English...
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    pigeon, turned his focus on the parakeets. The New Zealand conservationist Don Merton (who had faced similar problems with birds in his homeland) was invited...
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    Jeremy Merton Sisto (born October 6, 1974) is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Billy Chenowith in HBO's Six Feet Under, NYPD Detective Cyrus...
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    eventually removed the goat population by 1979 and in 1986, a team led by Don Merton eradicated the rabbit population using the newly-developed poison brodifacoum...
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  • the management and conservation of threatened species. Bell, along with Don Merton, was part of the ultimately unsuccessful attempt in 1964 to save the South...
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    New Zealand Educational Institute. She is married to David Merton, whose father Don Merton was a noted conservationist, and the couple have two children...
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  • Occupation / profession Purpose / project / findings Location of study 1973 Don Merton Conservationist To study the management of endangered species[citation...
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    black robin, rescued from near extinction by a dedicated team led by Don Merton, who used foster parent birds to raise the chicks of black robin. The...
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  • mathematics Kingi Areta Keiha (1900–1961), law clerk Paul McHugh, lawyer Don Merton (1939–2011), conservationist Stephen Parke (1950-- ), theoretical physicist...
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    Individual Russia Yuri Mikhailovich Luzhkov 1998 Adult Individual Russia Don Merton 1998 Adult Individual (Deceased) New Zealand Verna Simpson 1999 Adult...
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  • R.G.C., ed. (1964). Merton College Register 1900-1964. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 236. Neustadt, Richard E. (March 1998). "Don K. Price (23 January...
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    (the Kakapo) than Nestor. N. donmertoni was named in honor of the late Don Merton, who was instrumental in saving the kākāpō. N. daphneleeae is about a...
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    Entomologist, vol.5 (1971), p. 14 Ballance, Alison (27 September 2007). Don Merton: The Man Who Saved the Black Robin. Reed Books. ISBN 9780790011592. Retrieved...
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    along Merton Street, south along Bayview Avenue, east and south along the northern limit of the Township of East York, and east along the Don River to...
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    Department of Conservation. Thanks to the efforts of conservationist Don Merton, kākāpō was introduced onto the predator-free island in 1974. Additional...
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