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Bird of the year 2011

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The Nature Collection

NZ ON SCREEN To celebrate NZ’s unique natural taonga, Peter Hayden has curated a highlights collection from three decades of NHNZ productions. Aotearoa’s landforms and its magnificent menagerie of natural oddities – birds, insects, trees like nowhere else on the planet – are showcased in 15 award-winning titles. From Discovery Channel and David Bellamy, to [...]

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Weka on the menu

Wednesday, 3 February 2010, 10:00 am Press Release: Federated Farmers Media Release 3 February 2010 Reasons to farm weka Federated Farmers is backing entrepreneurial farmer, Roger Beattie, in his quest to secure trial approval to supply farmed weka. “Here’s a true Kiwi entrepreneur who ought to have every policy encouragement to see if a new [...]

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Baby Tuatara Hatches on Matiu/Somes Island

Thursday, 28 January 2010, 11:12 am Press Release: Department of Conservation A photograph taken of a baby tuatara on Wellington Harbour’s Matiu/Somes Island this month has confirmed for the first time that the rare reptiles are hatching on the island. The juvenile, just a few months old and about 8cm long, was spotted by Harriot [...]

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Scientists play tag with whitebait species

Wednesday, 9 December 2009, 9:44 am Press Release: NIWA Draft NIWA MEDIA STATEMENT 9 December 2009 Catch me if you can! Scientists play tag with whitebait species New Zealand’s iconic whitebait species are disappearing from our waterways, but help could soon be at hand for the threatened giant kōkopu. Scientists are carrying out a trial [...]

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Kiwi scientist makes a twitter breakthrough

Kiwi scientist makes a twitter breakthrough | Stuff.co.nz Bird watchers have long waxed lyrical about the benefits of listening to birds, but now a recording of their tweets has led a Kiwi ecologist to a scientific breakthrough. Murray Efford, of Otago University, and American ecologist Deanna Dawson have developed a world-first technique that enables scientists [...]

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Sirocco the kakapo an online phenomenon

07 October 2009 This week’s screening of the BBC’s “Last Chance to See” programme featuring New Zealand’s own conservation ambassador Sirocco the kākāpō, has catapulted kākāpō recovery into the international spotlight. Department of Conservation staff have been amazed by the response that viewers of the “Last Chance to See” programme, starring Stephen Fry and Mark [...]

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Kiwi discovered in outer space

Media release from Mt John Observatory, Lake Tekapo 28 September 2009 click for bigger version An astrophotographer has discovered a kiwi in outer space from New Zealand’s internationally renowned Mt John Observatory. It may be 26,000 light years away but a high powered astro-photograph has picked up the distinct image of New Zealand’s national icon [...]

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Chatham Island snipe returned to Pitt Island

Scoop: Chatham Island snipe returned to Pitt Island One of New Zealand’s least-known rare birds is making a comeback. Twenty Chatham Island snipe were released into a privately-owned reserve on Pitt Island on 28th April. Only 33 people live on Pitt Island, the second largest of the Chatham Islands. Members of the community assisted the [...]

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Rat scare at island sanctuary averted by four-legged hero

TV3 > News > Weather/Environment News > Story > Rat scare at island sanctuary averted by four-legged hero An island sanctuary for rare birds has been at the centre of a pest scare today. Motuihe Island in Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf has been rat-free for 15 years, but yesterday paw prints were found at several spots [...]

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Birds moved to new pest free home

Birds moved to new pest free home | NATIONAL | NEWS | tvnz.co.nz Thirty threatened Kakaruai birds have been successfully transferred to New Zealand’s newest sanctuary. Secretary Island, a 8,000 hectare island at the western end of Doubtful Sound in the Fiordland National Park, will be the new home to the Kaharuai, or South Island [...]

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Forest understory takes off

Whakatikei Restoration project click on images for larger ( phone camera ) versions Five finger of various variety , plus many of the broad leaf plants and smaller trees, have very much made a strong comeback, with not only seedlings quite thick on the bush floor in many places, but with many of the third [...]

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Greater Wellington – A fish ladder for Hull’s Creek

Greater Wellington – A fish ladder for Hull’s Creek Giant Kokopu (Galaxias argenteus) Photograph by R.M. McDowall inanga (Galaxias maculatus) The Silverstream care group is a busy one. For over five years now it’s been working hard to restore the stream, create a native bird corridor, reduce erosion and create a walkway linking Silverstream to [...]

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The Goodnight Kiwi

The Goodnight Kiwi was a animated short used to signal the end of the broadcast day on Television New Zealand channels,before they went 24hrs.It Aired from 1980/81 till October 19,1994.Its a classic.Also the song playing is a instrumental arrangement of traditional Māori song,”Hine e Hine” composed by Fannie Rose Howie (1868-1916) in 1905.

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Amusing End To Another Successful Kiwi Season

Kiwi Encounter at Rainbow Springs in Rotorua has celebrated the end of another hugely successful Kiwi season. Over the course of the 2006/07 season, 112 kiwi eggs were successfully hatched and a further 18 chicks brought in to Kiwi Encounter from the wild, leaving the operation on track to release over 120 kiwis back into [...]

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