12 Jun 2019

Seventh kākāpō chick dies of respiratory disease

From Morning Report, 8:40 am on 12 June 2019

A seventh kākāpō being treated for the respiratory disease aspergillosis has died.

Nora 1A was just over 100 days old and was the sickest of the kākāpō being treated at the for Conservation Medicine at Auckland Zoo.

RNZ reporter Matthew Theunissen was at the centre just hours before Nora died.

Watch the video below for an explanation of the respiratory disease, from before Nora died.