We are delighted to welcome Tom Smits to the Te Manahuna Aoraki team. Tom is a biodiversity ranger with DOC and will lead the project’s predator control operations, joining the Twizel based team in January 2019.
Good news, with all indications pointing to the team having removed all predators from our new robust grasshopper enclosure.
Work to increase the survival of braided river birds and other species in the project area is well underway.
Some good old number eight wire ingenuity from one of the station managers and his neighbour has seen a research project get off to a flying start—literally.
Former parliamentary commissioner for the environment, Dr Jan Wright, is involved in a new conservation project, Te Manahuna Aoraki.
A huge biodiversity project to preserve one of New Zealand’s most stunning landscapes and its threatened species has today been announced in Twizel.