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Taiko history video

How you can meet the locals:

Taiko

Chatham Islands

Moriori people once hunted the taiko but by the time Europeans arrived on the Chathams this seabird was thought to be extinct.

View the Taiko history video
(4 minute clip on TVNZ video player)

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