A breakthrough has been made for a bird on the brink.
The world population of the critically endangered Fatu Hiva monarch has risen thanks to Auckland Zoo and the Polynesian Ornithological Society.
They have successfully hand-reared a now five-week-old chick, bringing the bird's global count to twenty.
The chick is being cared for on the remote Fatu Hiva island in French Polynesia by a team of experts, led remotely by Dr Juan Cornejo, Auckland Zoo's curator of birds.
Cornejo spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.
