1Nov 27, 2014
After a weekend doing ground-based pest control, I can better appreciate the value of aerial 1080. I slid down a muddy bank with nothing to grab but a soggy tree fern stump that lifted from the soil like a mushroom. Through the rain and the supplejack lassoes I could see Ian and Merryl a few […]
2Nov 26, 2014
The fairy tern was the winner of Forest & Bird’s inaugural Seabird of the Year poll. One of the campaign managers for the fairy tern, Wade Doak, writes with his wife Jan about the day he saw two fairy tern taking advantage of the short distance between the west and east coasts of the North […]
3Nov 20, 2014
A new black-billed gull/tarapunga colony has been discovered; it’s great news but because these gulls are so rare, we can’t just leave them to the mercy of predators. The campaign manager for the black-billed gull/tarapunga, Steve Attwood, gives us this update. THREATENED SPECIES GET TOGETHER DOWN AT THE RIVER Braided river birds are getting it […]
4Nov 13, 2014
In late October a trio of Wellingtonians went on a three-day inspiration expedition to the Hūnua Ranges south-east of Auckland. The Hūnua Ranges — a key water catchment for Auckland — had been in the news due to the confirmation of an upcoming 1080 drop in the ranges. The reason? To suppress introduced predators like rats and possums […]
5Nov 6, 2014
Albatrosses are one of the most inspiring of marine creatures, gliding effortlessly on huge broad wings across the oceans. They have the longest wingspan of any bird. Perhaps we humans envy them, just a bit, for their apparent freedom to fly across the oceans anywhere that takes their fancy, only returning to land every two […]