Environment

Environment court hearing gets underway to save Hamilton bats

05:10 am on 31 August 2020

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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.