31 Aug 2020
Environment court hearing gets underway to save Hamilton bats
Environmentalists worried a population of bats could be pushed to extinction by a housing development are taking their fight to court. The critically endangered long-tailed bats - pekapeka - live along the Waikato river and are New Zealand's only urban bats with a population of just 60. Our reporter Riley Kennedy went down to the banks of the Waikato river to investigate.