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Capital Kiwi - the community-led project to return to wild kiwi to Wellington

Capital Kiwi is an ambitious community conservation project to bring wild kiwi back to Wellington.

Listen to Capital Kiwi founder and leader Paul Stanley Ward and DOC Conservation Advisor talk with Kathryn Ryan here.

Photo: courtesy of Kiwis for Kiwi

Paul Stanley Ward / photo supplied

'Eco Estella' Ward and Paul 'Scratch' Jansen / photo: Paul Stanley Ward

The Capital Kiwi logo, designed by Tyrone Ohia

90-year-old Makara resident Ted Smith hits the stake of the first predator trap into the ground at the launch of the Capital Kiwi project - Terawhiti Station, 12 November 2018 / photo: Hamish Johnson - Flying Saucer

Sylvie, Estella and Paul Ward at the launch of Capital Kiwi / photo: Hamish Johnson - Flying Saucer

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Wellington Harbour / photo: @wellingtonwanders

Photo: Ruedi Mosimann

People assembling waratahs, screwing traps on boxes and tagging them with the Capital Kiwi icon at a recent community muck-in / photo: Lucy Kebbell

People assembling waratahs, screwing traps on boxes and tagging them with the Capital Kiwi icon at a recent community muck-in / photo: Lucy Kebbell

People assembling waratahs, screwing traps on boxes and tagging them with the Capital Kiwi icon at a recent community muck-in / photo: Lucy Kebbell

People assembling waratahs, screwing traps on boxes and tagging them with the Capital Kiwi icon at a recent community muck-in / photo: Lucy Kebbell

Makara Model School students created the Capital Kiwi salute - three fingers held up to look like a kiwi footprint. / photo: Paul Stanley Ward

Photo: Lucy Kebbell

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