One-hundred-and-thirty of the world’s smallest and rarest wading birds are being released into the Mackenzie Basin this week, off the back of a major trapping programme.
Predator trapping will reach a “grand scale” in the Mackenzie Basin in a bid to help the plight of endangered braided-river birds.
The NZ Defence Force is involved in the Te Manahuna Aoraki conservation work, protecting endangered and native species on their land.
Principles of bird conservation are helping to save another remarkable native you’ve never heard of.
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.