Iconic Bird is reintroduced in Japan

 The Toki (Japanese Crested Ibis) is endemic to only a few places in Japan.  It feasts in the rice fields, where it eats bugs and frogs from the rice patty (not rice). From the 80s through the 2000s, the population crashed to extinction in the wild. 

Japan took the last 9 out for breeding. China cooperated with them, getting the 7 last ones from a Chinese zoo sent to Japan to help the gene pool.

The breakthrough came in a typhoon of 2017 that wiped out the infrastructure of the island (Sado) in the Ishikawa province. When the typhoon destroyed the rice fields in particular, about 30+ rice farmers signed on to grow rice without pesticides in a Toki pact. About 3 years later, many of the Toki were released. It is thought there are now about 900 birds doing well there.

Yay