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Closures July 2024
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- 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, ...
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Sanctuary Closure 23-25th July
- Zealandia
- 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, ...
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Birds of a (variety of) feathers
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- 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 ...
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Take Action: Bringing the birds to her backyard
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- At Zealandia Te Māra a Tāne, we recommend planting trees to attract manu/birds to your backyard. Zealandia volunteer and local artist Melissa Boardman shares her experience with feeding and planting ...
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It’s the Five-Minute Countdown (of birds)
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- 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 ...
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“Kia whakatōmuri te haere whakamua.”
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- 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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Media release: Partnering indigenous knowledge systems and western science to help freshwater
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- ZEALANDIA MEDIA RELEASE For immediate release: 10 June 2024 A traditional mātauranga Māori method has been used successfully to collect freshwater fish in the latest translocation at ...
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Mātauranga in Action
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- The 2024 collection of toitoi has now happened! A small team joined a group of Taranaki Whānui ki te Ūpoko o te Ika whānau on April 20th to collect toitoi from Kohangapiripiri at Parangarahu Lakes. ...
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Release the Frogs!
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- There will be some closures on Te Māhanga track from May until the end of June as part of a very exciting project to release the population of pepeketua/Hamilton’s Frogs from their enclosures later ...
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First Line of De-Fence
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- The first of its kind in the world, Zealandia’s fence prevents all kinds of mammalian predators from entering the 225-hectare sanctuary inside. The curved top hat stops climbing predators, the ...
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Who ya gonna call? Weedbusters!
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- While the fence does a fabulous job keeping out mammalian predators, invasive plants are a bit trickier to contain. Our conservation team have been on the hunt recently for floral pests in ...
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Leaping Lizards!
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- Recently a rainbow skink (Lampropholis delicata, also known as plague skinks) has been spotted in Glenside. You might remember our story earlier this year about these lizards which had yet to make ...
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Winter Opening Hours
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- Now that the days are getting shorter, we have begun preparing for winter and will be moving to winter hours from Wednesday 1 May until Saturday 31 August.. What does this mean? • The ...
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Keeping tabs on the new residents
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- Over the years, we've done a great job introducing different native wildlife to Zealandia – birds, fish, plants, you name it! But our job doesn't end there. After they settle in, we keep a close ...
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Fledging the nest
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- As the hihi breeding season wrapped up in March, we started see many of the season’s juveniles emerging from the depths of the ngahere/forest and becoming more visible. This past season, 28 ...
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Beloved Zealandia takahē Nio dies, aged 19
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- It is with deep sadness that the team at Zealandia Te Māra a Tāne confirms beloved takahē Nio died over the weekend. Nio, 19, was taken to Wildbase Hospital at Massey University on Wednesday ...
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Take Action: 'Sponsor a Fish' and help freshwater thrive
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- This is part of our work with partners and stakeholders to restore the mouri/lifeforce of the Kaiwharawhara catchment, of which Zealandia Te Māra a Tāne is at the headwaters. In March, ...
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Bringing the birds back to town
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- In late 2023 kiwi chicks hatched in the wild west of Wellington for the first time in 150 years. These are the first chicks produced from a recently- established population of adult kiwi on the ...
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Flying the nest
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- Sometimes it may be obvious that a bird is a fledgling: for example, if it’s begging noisily from a parent. Perhaps the most obvious example is the giant pīpīwharauroa chick begging from its tiny ...
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Changing the current: Fish passage in Aotearoa
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- Many of our fish species are diadromous, which means they must move between salt and fresh water to complete their lifecycle. This includes some species which climb their way to different parts of a ...
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Getting to the root of the problem
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- Our gardens are wonderful places to spend our summer days and evenings. As much as we love our gardens, they can also contain unwanted plant visitors. While not all introduced plants are ...
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Actions for the Awa
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- Our streams need our help. Aotearoa was once full of open streams and rivers, cutting across the landscape. As humans changed this landscape, many of these were diverted or piped to make way ...
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Who let the dogs in?
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- Rapu and Alfie, along with their humans, Sally and Miriam, are part of the Conservation Dogs programme and work hard all around Aotearoa, ensuring offshore islands, cargo, and sanctuaries like ...
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Kaiwharawhara Catchment - Why you should give a Dam
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- In Wellington City, the Kaiwharawhara catchment is special – it's the biggest stream system, and it's the only one with an open estuary into Wellington harbour. Nate Rigler, leading our Kia ...
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Plague skinks: What's in a name?
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- While the impacts of introduced mammals on our native ecosystems are widely known, what about introduced lizards? Zealandia post-doctoral researcher Christopher Woolley shares his thoughts on the ...
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How To Live With Nature
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- Across twelve weeks, Zealandia Te Māra a Tāne staff sat down with RadioActive host, Don Luchito to share how to live with nature. Listen to the interviews here: Intro to How to Live with ...
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Volunteers ridding Highbury suburb of Old Man’s Beard
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- A group of volunteers are on a mission to rid Wellington of Old Man’s Beard, a vine that smothers our New Zealand native bush. Following on from their success in clearing Old Man’s ...
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Plastic free Urupā
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- Over the last few years, the plastic free movement has taken off. Plastic bags are no longer given out at supermarkets, keep cups are a staple at cafes and recently plastic cutlery has been banned ...
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Creativity and being part of the natural world: resounding with a riroriro
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- What does it sound like when musical artists understand themselves as part of nature? The sounds that artists create are embedded in the sound worlds of the millions of non-human species ...
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Media release: Tuatara siblings move to Wellington Zoo as Zealandia ecosanctuary's wild population flourishes
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- Two captive tuatara who have called Zealandia Te Māra a Tāne (Zealandia) home for the past decade have found a new home at Wellington Zoo. Staff from Zealandia and Wellington Zoo, and ...
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