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A baby kakapo just after being hatched - Source: ONE News -
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The future is looking brighter for the Kakapo, the rarest parrot in the world.
This critically endangered native bird has reached a milestone with newly hatched chicks finally boosting the population to three figures.
In 1995 there were only 50 of the flightless birds but now numbers have reached 105.
Emma Neill from the Department of Conservation is very pleased with the population growth.
"We have doubled the population in a decade, one of the great things about this increase is that it's due to a lot of young birds breeding for the very first time" says Neill.
It has been a particularly good breeding season and there are still 23 more eggs in nests so Kakapo could get a further boost.
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