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	Podcast:		Morning Report
	Episode:		Capital Kiwi Project proving successful
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:06:42
	Publish Date:		2026-02-02 19:44:00
	Description:		We're a nation of Kiwis but many New Zealanders have never seen the bird they're named after in the wild. So when a project to bring the national icon back to the capital was hatched in 2016 most people thought it was crazy. The Capital Kiwi Project aims to restore a large scale wild kiwi population to Wellington's hillsides - from Red Rocks on the south coast to west of Porirua. A decade on, the kiwi are thriving - and when the latest group is released in April there will be 250 kiwi living in Wellington. Founder of the Capital Kiwi Project Paul Ward spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.
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