Bringing the tūī back to town – how native birds are returning to NZ’s restored urban forests

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Urbanisation, and the destruction of habitat it entails, is a major threat to native bird populations. But as our new research shows, restored urban forests can return native birds to our cities and improve species richness.

The older the restored forest, the more native bird species it can support. Shutterstock/Dmitry Naumov