1May 20, 2016
May has been a fantastic month for the volunteers at Ark in the Park, Forest & Bird’s 2100 hectare open sanctuary in the Waitakeres. 100 pōpokotea (whiteheads) and 10 kōkako were translocated to the Ark, helping to restore our dawn chorus as John Staniland, one of the project’s founders, explains. Last week while doing my monthly trapping […]
2Jun 23, 2010
Blogger: Forest & Bird’s Web Manager, Mandy Herrick We touched down on the moon in 1969. We travelled 11kms to the sea-floor in 1960. We peered into living cells and discovered DNA in 1951. Moon-travel, deep-sea exploration, cell-research, we’ve done it all, and yet, we still know very little about the unexplored communities that live […]
3Jun 1, 2010
Blogger: Forest & Bird’s Web Manager, Mandy Herrick In the weekend, over 80 people braved the wild weather to welcome two endangered kokako into their new 2000 hectare home in the Waitakere ranges. Six kokako were released into the park late last year, so this release will help boost numbers to create a self-sustaining population. This release is part of a broader […]
4Jul 24, 2009
For those of us lucky enough to live in the Waitakere Ranges with its awe-inspiring forests and thunderous coasts, communing with nature tends to be part of our everyday lives. The many ways in which we do relate to the natural world and its other inhabitants has always been a source of fascination for me. […]