4 Mar 2022

Critically endangered diving petrel population on the up

From Morning Report, 7:56 am on 4 March 2022

Conservationists are celebrating a bumper breeding season for a critically endangered subspecies of diving petrel.

There are now 210 of the birds, a modest increase from previous years.

Department of Conservation technical advisor Johannes Fischer has been studying the birds closely.

He spoke to Corin Dann.