North Island brown kiwi on rise in NZ

By Ben McKay
Updated January 15 2022 - 10:06am, first published 10:00am
A new report moves the North Island brown kiwi from "At Risk - Declining" to "Not Threatened".
A new report moves the North Island brown kiwi from "At Risk - Declining" to "Not Threatened".

Conservationists in New Zealand are revelling in the first recorded increase in the North Island brown kiwi population, reversing decades of plummeting bird numbers.