Despite the bird being a beloved national symbol, few New Zealanders have seen one in the wild.
However, numbers are rising again thanks to more than 90 community initiatives working nationwide to protect them.
"They are central to Maori myth. Our sports teams, our rugby league teams, our defence force and, even when we go overseas, we are known as kiwis. A member of the Capital Kiwi Project team releases a male kiwi named Ātārangi after changing out the bird's transmitterThe project laid a huge network of 4,500 traps over an area equivalent to nearly 43,000 football pitches on the hills surrounding Wellington. The traps have claimed 1,000 stoats so far.
The birds were carefully transported nearly 500 kilometres from a captive breeding programme to a Wellington school, where they were welcomed by a traditional Maori ceremony.
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