 Today, apart from routine monitoring to be able to assist individual couples that fail to establish breeding territories for lack of nesting facilities - a major limiting factor, the ongoing control of introduced predators is basically all that is being done to assist the species' survival (BirdLife International 2006a,b).In 2014, the species was uplisted to endangered due to a decline in a once increasing population.It is believed that there are less than 400 mature birds alive in the wild.