15 Oct 2025

Rescue mission on for country's rarest kiwi species

From Checkpoint, 4:43 pm on 15 October 2025

A rescue mission of the country's rarest kiwi species is being rewarded. The rowi population in South Westland dropped to an estimated 160 birds in the 1990s. But there's been a lot of mahi to bring them back from the brink. Tess Brunton has more.