Renewed hope for future of critically endangered alpine skink | Stuff.co.nz

There's renewed hope for the future of a critically endangered alpine skink species, with the birth of four skinks at Auckland Zoo.

Though one has since died, the skinks are the offspring of a pregnant adult female Awakopaka taken from the Homer Saddle in Fiordland.

Her discovery came after hundreds of hours spent searching the alpine landscape amid fears mice may already have destroyed the population. Adam Hollingworth reports. | Subscribe: https://bit.ly/2JPg8oB


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