Save the kiwi! New Zealand rallies to protect its iconic bird

Experts are battling to save the remaining 68,000 kiwis in a country once home to millionsBelow a mottled sky, a lone sea craft cuts across the water towards Kapiti Island. It's been forsaken by people and gifted to the rare and vulnerable birds of New Zealand to forage undisturbed. Kiwi stepping carefully up the beach at midnight. Kokako waking no one with their shrill calls. And hihi flitting freely through the dense native bush. With no predators allowed, the birds are confident and thriving."New Zealanders are a shy and reclusive bunch, the kiwi is a bird we identify with," says Paul O'Shea, an administrator for Kiwis for Kiwi, a conservation group set up to save the bird from extinction. Continue reading...