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    • Dialectical dilemmas
      • Have you noticed that when you travel outside of Wellington, birds that you are familiar with here can sound slightly or even substantially different? This is because, like people, birds have ...

    • Show me the green
      • Over the next few weeks, if you happen to wander by a māpou/red matipo tree you might hear a soft pitter-patter of dropping fruit or perhaps the occasional quiet chatter. Pause for a moment, peer ...

    • Noticing nature
      • “It came to me while picking beans, the secret of happiness.” Robin Wall Kimmerer. We are now well into spring, with signs of it all around us. The puawānanga/clematis is sitting proudly on ...

    • Ake ake ake – A forever language
      • We just celebrated Te Wiki te Reo Māori, an annual celebration for all New Zealanders to show their support for the Māori language, an official language of this country. Want to know what te reo ...

    • Sustainability at Rātā Café
      • Rātā Café has made a few changes recently to help make the café more sustainable and make it easier for our visitors to make sustainable choices. Customers with different dietary requirements ...

    • Responsible cat ownership: Microchipping
      • Almost half of all households in Aotearoa own at least one domestic cat, and 20% own two or more. Being a responsible cat owner is vital to keeping your cat safe and happy and also to helping keep ...

    • Harbingers of spring
      • With the end of August, the signs of spring are beginning to show all around us. Tūī and kererū have been regularly spotted around the brightly flowering kōwhai, and kōtukutuku/tree fuchsia flowers ...

    • Dead weasel found in trap
      • Earlier this month, our solid sanctuary biosecurity systems put in place by our conservation team were put to the test, with a weasel discovered dead in a DOC200 trap at the southern end of the ...

    • An unFROGettable journey
      • The last of the captive population of pepeketua/Hamilton’s frogs have been released from their enclosure following the opening of a new boardwalk built to protect them from human foot traffic. This ...

    • Bringing back the giants of the forest
      • A key part of our 500-year vision for Zealandia is a towering canopy of podocarps. Podocarps are Aotearoa New Zealand’s tallest trees, such as rimu, kahikatea, and tōtara. While we generally ...

    • From pines to podocarps
      • Towering above visitors in the ngahere/forest, the non-native pine trees at Zealandia Te Māra a Tāne were originally planted as a forestry trial as early as the 1880s. Jo Ledington, General Manager ...

    • Celebrating our amazing volunteers
      • Recently we hosted a very special awards night for the volunteers of Zealandia Te Māra a Tāne. Over 500 people continue to support our staff by volunteering across the organisation, from ...

    • A nose for kiwi
      • While normally any furry mammals are kept well out of the sanctuary, this month we opened the gates for some very special working dogs. These dogs are part of the Conservation Dogs programme which ...

    • Take action: Volunteering in conservation
      • Lynn Freeman has been a volunteer at Zealandia for many years and is our most recent recipient of our Faye Schaef Award. This award is given to a volunteer who exhibits the qualities and ...

    • Last chance for Dawn Walks
      • Dawn at Zealandia is a very special time of day, which you can experience through a Dawn Walk. These walks include a 3-hour guided tour in the valley before opening hours, a light snack during and ...

    • Te Māhanga boardwalk is open!
      • The new boardwalk down Te Māhanga track is now open! Thank you again for your patience as we carried out this important mahi. We’ve built this boardwalk to keep the pepeketua/Hamilton’s frogs safe ...

    • Rainy day magic
      • Thinking you won't see any birds if you come to Zealandia in the winter months? Well, think again! Birds' senses are generally well in tune with approaching weather changes, and many of the ...

    • Why do people volunteer?
      • Zealandia Te Māra a Tāne relies heavily on our amazing community of volunteers. Our volunteers help us with a wide range of tasks and activities. They come from all walks of life and are passionate ...

    • Closures July 2024
      • The sanctuary will be closed from 23-25 July for the felling of some large pine trees over Lake Road. There will be no access into the valley for anyone for the health and safety of our visitors, ...

    • Sanctuary Closure 23-25th July
      • The sanctuary will be closed from 23-25 July for the felling of some large pine trees over Lake Road. There will be no access into the valley for anyone for the health and safety of our visitors, ...

    • Birds of a (variety of) feathers
      • Walking in the sanctuary is a whole new experience in autumn and winter. Fungi peek their heads out of the ground, the green colours of the plants pop in the damp ngahere/forest and different manu ...

    • It’s the Five-Minute Countdown (of birds)
      • The Conservation team have been carrying out their biannual Five-Minute Bird Counts (5MBC) recently, in which they count all birds seen or heard within 200 meters of various stations around the ...

    • “Kia whakatōmuri te haere whakamua.”
      • Last year we did something we, and likely no one else in NZ had ever done before – a freshwater ika/fish translocation for restoration purposes. This project was full of learnings for us, all of ...

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