Karori Sanctuary related newsitems

• • ZEALANDIA makes The Guardian's Green Travel List

    • 24 Feb 2010
    • Karori Sanctuary Trust
    • ZEALANDIA has been selected by UK broadsheet The Guardian as one of the top 75 green tourism companies in the world.
  
  

• • Takahe to find retirement home in Wellington

    • 4 Feb 2010
    • Karori Sanctuary Trust
    • Two of the world's rarest birds are set to spend their twilight years at the ZEALANDIA wildlife safe haven in Wellington.
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• • 'Tui Talent Quest' planned for Karori Sanctuary Trust appeal

    • 27 Jan 2010
    • Karori Sanctuary Trust
    • In addition to asking Wellingtonians to give generously to their annual street collection next Friday (5 Feb), Karori Sanctuary Trust will also be getting people to give the tui a run for their money with a 'Tui Talent Quest' in Midland Park. The best bird impersonators will be judged live on The Breeze at 1.30pm.
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• • Wellington City Libraries’ visit to Zealandia – Part 1

    • 18 Jan 2010
    • Wellington City Libraries News Blog
    • As part of our Summer in Wellington series, Wellington City Libraries have been visiting Zealandia – the Karori Sanctuary.
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    • jillbee RT @wellynews Wellington City Libraries News Blog - Wellington City Libraries’ visit to Zealandia – Part 1 http://tinyurl.com/y8ocpgo
  
  

• • The 2010 mayoral election is about job creation and transparency

    • 2 Jan 2010
    • Your Wellington
    • The Fairfax Press has been talking about how Wellingtonians are expected to bail out some loss-makers, such as the Karori Wildlife Sanctuary.
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• • New Zealand's top predator makes spectacular return to the capital

    • 18 Dec 2009
    • Karori Sanctuary Trust
    • Conservation staff believe they have found the first New Zealand falcons to have hatched in the city since the Seventies.
    • kiwisnake RT @wellynews: Karori Sanctuary Trust - New Zealand's top predator makes spectacular return to the capital http://tinyurl.com/ybnc8m5
  
  

• • Bizzare orchid in bloom

    • 13 Dec 2009
    • Karori Sanctuary Trust
    • At more than a metre tall and completely leafless, the potato orchid is an extremely unusual looking plant with a very strange reputation.
  
  

• • ZEALANDIA partners pitch in for Conservation Week

    • 18 Sep 2009
    • Karori Sanctuary Trust
    • Senior managers from Mitsubishi Motors NZ helped conservation staff remove pest conifers and plant native trees.
  
  

• • ZEALANDIA Gets Enviro Gold

    • 8 Sep 2009
    • Karori Sanctuary Trust
    • ZEALANDIA gets gold in the world’s first fully-integrated environmental and quality accreditation programme for tourism.
  
  

• • Convalescing kiwi on the road to recovery

    • 24 Aug 2009
    • Karori Sanctuary Trust
    • At the end of last year, ZEALANDIA welcomed its newest arrival – a little spotted kiwi with a rather peculiar condition.
  
  

• • Kaka casualty fit to fly again

    • 10 Aug 2009
    • Karori Sanctuary Trust
    • One of our young kaka, nursed back to health after being found close to death in a gutter, is released back into the wild.
  
  

• • Karori Sanctuary Trust Board Appointments

    • 28 May 2009
    • Wellington City Council
    • Wellington City Council has appointed two new trustees, Professor Paul Callaghan and Russell Ballard, to the Karori Sanctuary Trust Board.
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• • Eel Escapade

    • 14 May 2009
    • Karori Sanctuary Trust
    • Conservation staff at ZEALANDIA were in for a surprise when they tried to track down a transmittered giant weta recently.
  
  

• • Council's sanctuary

    • 22 Apr 2009
    • Capital Times
    • THE Wellington City Council (WCC) has taken more control in the construction of the Zealandia (Karori Sanctuary’s) Visitor and Education Centre after concerns with the management of the project.
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• • Karori Sanctuary Trust governance changes

    • 16 Apr 2009
    • Wellington City Council
    • Wellington City Council is demanding changes to the structure of the Karori Sanctuary Trust Board as a condition of its loan funding to build the TrustÂ’s new Visitor and Education Centre.
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• • Enchanted Evenings at ZEALANDIA: The Karori Sanctuary Experience

    • 6 Feb 2009
    • Karori Sanctuary Trust
    • Experience the magic of twilight at the Sanctuary with our late opening hours. With 34km of bushwalks to explore, and over 30 species of native birds and reptiles to discover, the Sanctuary is a magical place at any time of the day. But on Fridays and weekends throughout February and March we’re extending our opening hours from to 10am – 8pm (last entry 7pm).
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• • Learn about lizards

    • 28 Jan 2009
    • Karori Sanctuary Trust
    • Can you tell a skink apart from a gecko? Local lizard expert Dennis Keall and Sanctuary conservation staff will be giving visitors a chance to see a range of New Zealand's native geckos and skinks. ZEALANDIA - Karori Sanctuary. 11am-2pm.
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• • Stephen Fry visits the Sanctuary

    • 31 Dec 2008
    • Karori Sanctuary Trust
    • Well-known British comedian Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine took time out of their filming schedule to help staff at the Karori Sanctuary to release five rare hihi.
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• • Reduced loan for Sanctuary after debate

    • 6 Nov 2008
    • Wellington City Council
    • Wellington Mayor Kerry Prendergast stressed the need for “leadership and discipline” in controlling Council spending during a debate today over increased funding for the Karori Sanctuary.
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• • Karori Sanctuary Story

    • 31 Oct 2008
    • Grant Robertson - Wellington Central MP
    • The Dom Post has a front page story about the need for additional funding for the Sanctuary to complete the Visitor and Education Centre. This issue has been around for a while, and was discussed in the open part of the AGM last month. My understanding is that there have been some geo-technical issues that the Council have been concerned about, and this had led to the need for additional work and therefore costs.
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• • Teenage kaka go on the rampage

    • 12 Sep 2008
    • Karori Sanctuary Trust
    • Spring has arrived early in Wellington. But whilst most native bird species at the city’s world-renowned Karori Sanctuary are busy building their nests, a gang of teenage kaka have other ideas...
  
  

• • Wellington´s Wandering Weta

    • 5 Jul 2007
    • Landcare Research scientists believe lust is the key reason why male giant weta walk almost three times as far as females each night. Weta with tracking device attached Weta with tracking device attached Twenty Cook Strait giant weta fitted with miniature transmitters were among 100 animals transferred into Wellington's Karori Sanctuary in February.
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• • Sanctuary Gateway unveiled

    • 29 May 2003
    • Karori Sanctuary Trust
    • The Karori Wildlife Sanctuary unveils its plans for the next stage of major development  the Gateway Project.