Conservation / April 2021
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Injured ruru ready to fly the nest
- Wellington City Council
- A baby ruru found with wounds on his feet and a fractured wing tip has been released back into the wild after some TLC from Wellington Zoo’s veterinary team.
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Happy Takahē Awareness Month!
- Zealandia
- ZEALANDIA is proud to work with the Department of Conservation Takahē Recovery Programme which aims to boost takahē numbers living in their natural habitats, and for the species to be treasured as a ...
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Zealandia, Lake Road, Highbury, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Fernbird monitoring shows breeding is happening, 2021
- Friends of Mana Island
- The fernbirds are everywhere! In April 2019, FOMI transferred 40 mātātā /North Island fernbirds from Rotokare Scenic Reserve in South Taranaki to Mana Island.
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Mana Island, Moki Street, Titahi Bay, Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, 5022, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Five-minute bird counts resurrected on Mana, April 2021
- Friends of Mana Island
- Earlier this year Colin Miskelly produced a proposal to resurrect the 5-minute bird count surveys on Mana. The island is the focus of one of the most comprehensive ecological restoration programmes in New Zealand. However, there is little information published on how the landbird community on Mana has changed over time. The last farm stock […]
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Mana Island, Moki Street, Titahi Bay, Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, 5022, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Speargrass weevil survey gets underway, Feb 2021
- Friends of Mana Island
- Late in 2020 Colin Miskelly proposed a one-off survey of speargrass weevils on Mana Island for early 2021. The expectation was for similar surveys to be undertaken occasionally (e.g. at 3–5 year intervals) to assess whether speargrass weevils are being impacted by the Beauveria fungus that is being spread by the flax weevils. The background to […]
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Mana Island, Moki Street, Titahi Bay, Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, 5022, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Improving fisheries management...
- Friends of Taputeranga Marine Reserve
- McKenzie Tornquist, inaugural Kevin Smith Memorial scholarship recipient is looking at the small fish in Taputeranga Marine Reserve to make a big difference.
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Taputeranga Marine Reserve, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Assessing the impact of ocean acidification...
- Friends of Taputeranga Marine Reserve
- 2019 Kevin Smith Memorial scholarship recipient Elizabeth Farnham engineered a special experimental system that allowed her to change the temperature and acidity of the sea water in her holding tanks and measure how calcifying sponges react to the changing environment.
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Taputeranga Marine Reserve, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Diving into the life cycle of sponges...
- Friends of Taputeranga Marine Reserve
- Francesca Strano, 2020 recipient of the Kevin Smith Memorial scholarship, investigates the effects of of ocean warming on the early life stages of New Zealand sponges and their associated microbes.
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Taputeranga Marine Reserve, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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What you need to know about the Newtown Festival
- Newtown Festival
- Maps and Programmes There will be maps and programmes available throughout the festival and attached to each recycling station.
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Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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FOMI work trip – 27-29 November 2020 – a very wet weekend
- Friends of Mana Island
- The weather in the lead up to this trip plus the changing forecasts raised doubts over whether the trip would proceed. Eliot was keen around midday Friday for us leave earlier as winds were forecast to rise later – they certainly did too. It was quite a rough trip across. Some people weren’t able to […]
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Mana Island, Moki Street, Titahi Bay, Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, 5022, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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FOMI work trip – October 2020 – flax weevil MIQ set up
- Friends of Mana Island
- Now back at level 1 we were able to take a full complement of 17. It was back to sharing smaller spaces and noisier, but as usual a friendly and good natured group. There were many new faces on this trip. Most joined Will on his critter search, Friday night at the flax weevil trial site. […]
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Mana Island, Moki Street, Titahi Bay, Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, 5022, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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ZEALANDIA's predator exclusion fence – knowledge now available to all
- Zealandia
- ZEALANDIA’s world-first predator exclusion fence is now twenty years old. Alongside the enormous amount of research and testing that went into the development of the fence itself, we now have two ...
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Zealandia, Lake Road, Highbury, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Tapu te Ranga Marae Documentary
- Manawa Karioi Ecological Restoration Project
- Ruth Korver and I had limited resources to make this special story about Tapu te Ranga Marae come to life. It has been a huge buzz having the documentary feature on The Spinoff. Thanks to Charlotte Muru-Lanning for this well-written article that brings the story up to date. Ness Patea
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Te Ahi Ka - Loop Track, Island Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6023, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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