Posted in Department of Conservation, Dunedin, Inspiration, Penguin, Yellow-eyed Penguin, bird, birds, cat, conservation, doc, ecological, environment, extinction, island, new zealand, nz, south island, trust, tv3, video, wildlife on November 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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The country’s newest public reserve has opened on the Catlins coast, to provide a safe haven for the endangered Yellow-eyed penguin.
The Department of Conservation has teamed up with a community trust to create a long strip of protected coastline, about two hours south of Dunedin.
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This remote area [...]
Posted in Aotearoa, Department of Conservation, Falcon, bird, birds, conservation, doc, ecological, environment, extinction, nature, new zealand, south island, yellowhead on November 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It is an unlikely partnership – the predatory New Zealand falcon and the endangered mohua – but they are thriving side by side.
The falcon, a species in gradual decline, and the mohua (yellowhead) are benefiting from a predator control programme in the Catlins River Walk area of the Catlins Forest Park in Southland.
It has not [...]
Posted in Aotearoa, Auckland, bird, birds, bush, chick, ecological, extinction, island, kiwi, nature, new zealand, nz, sustainability, tv3, video, wildlife on November 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
TV3 > News > Weather/Environment News > Story > Kiwi sanctuary helping against extinction
They have been nothing more than a distant memory in the Auckland region for more than half a century, but now, kiwis are set to make a return.
Forty of the birds have been transported to the Tawharanui sanctuary from an outlying island.
When [...]
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