They are a part of who we are and our sense of belonging here,” said Paul Ward, founder of the Capital Kiwi Project.

Like many student volunteers, the kids in the group Town Belt Kaitiaki look after their neighborhood parks — planting trees, weeding, clearing paths. But they also do something less common: ...

Video. Wellington has welcomed its 250th relocated kiwi as the Capital Kiwi Project works to restore New Zealand's national ...

New Zealand's rarest birds have seemingly come back from the dead. For decades, they were thought to be extinct until tiny populations were rediscovered, the holdouts that survived against the odds.