A citizen campaign returns iconic kiwi birds to New Zealand’s capital after a century-long absence

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — More than 100 years after New Zealand’s flightless, culturally sacred national bird the kiwi disappeared from the rolling hills surrounding the nation’s capital, a grassroots community movement is working to reverse that historic loss, turning a once-improbable dream of urban coexistence with the endangered species into a growing conservation success story.