Karori Sanctuary Trust
Karori Sanctuary Trust has an extraordinary 500-year vision: to restore a corner of New Zealand as closely as possible to the way it was the day before humans arrived. Our groundbreaking 225ha (550 acre) sanctuary for native wildlife, established in 1995, was a major breakthrough in the recovery of native wildlife on mainland New Zealand, reversing a decline that has lasted for at least 700 years.
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Enchanted Evenings at ZEALANDIA: The Karori Sanctuary Experience
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- 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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Karori, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Learn about lizards
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- 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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Kelburn, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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Stephen Fry visits the Sanctuary
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- 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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Teenage kaka go on the rampage
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- 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...
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Spotting ‘little spots’
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- With a special two-for-one offer on its unique Nocturnal Tours this winter, Wellington's award-winning Karori Sanctuary is definately the place to head for a night out with a difference. And there's even a chance you will spot a 'little spot' - New Zealand's smallest kiwi species!
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Mayor & tourism chiefs launch
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- Wellington’s tourism community was out in force today to celebrate the unveiling of detailed plans for the capital’s newest attraction – the state-of-the-art visitor & education centre at Karori Sanctuary.
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Giant tui takes to the streets
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- Wellingtonians be warned… those troublemaking tui are at it again! This time, however, it’s not the sound of singing practice that will be ringing in our ears, but the sound of tin-rattling.
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NIWA helps Sanctuary in the great perch search
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- Scientists from NIWA will be using state-of-the-art echosounder technology to get to the bottom of a perch problem that has been plaguing Wellington’s conservation safe haven, Karori Sanctuary.
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Sanctuary showdown: intruder apprehended
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- Members of the public helped conservation staff in a dramatic showdown this afternoon at Wellington’s groundbreaking Karori Sanctuary, when the unidentified mustelid that has had Sanctuary staff on the run since last week was captured.
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Sanctuary on red alert following bio-security breach
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- The hunt is on for an unidentified intruder at Wellington’s groundbreaking Karori Sanctuary after evidence of either a stoat or weasel was found at the conservation safe haven.
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They’re big, they’re scary, and they’re coming to a sanctuary near YOU!
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- On Sunday 17 February, up to 100 Cook Strait giant weta (Deinacrida rugosa) from Matiu/Somes Island are being released into the wild at Karori Sanctuary. This is the second in a series of four planned releases at the world-first wildlife sanctuary, which hopes to establish mainland New Zealand’s first viable population of the species since they became extinct here over a century ago.
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Return of the native
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- An elusive Wellingtonian has made a surprise re-appearance after an absence of nearly 30 years. Once widespread throughout the Region, the Wellington green gecko has been in gradual decline for many years due to habitat loss and predation.
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The hundredth kaka
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- Kaka were extinct in Wellington for over 100 years until six captive-reared birds were released into the award-winning wildlife sanctuary in 2002. Since then several more captive-reared birds have been released, but the population has naturally increased at least ten-fold, and the birds are becoming an increasingly common sight in local parks and gardens.
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Muddled morepork
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- We've all heard of 'Night Owls' but this morepork at Karori Sanctuary was caught on camera at 1pm on a Friday afternoon!
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Troublesome tui
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- While residents of Christchurch and Auckland are lying awake at night listening to the boy racers tearing up the tarseal, they might want to spare a thought for the poor Wellingtonians, who are suffering from an altogether different disturbance this summer. Troublesome tui!
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Putting the FUN into fundraising
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- Karori Sanctuary is giving people two great opportunities to toast the return of rare native wildlife to Wellington this summer!
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Tuatara transfer trebles mainland population
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- Around a hundred invited guests and some fantastic weather greeted the Sanctuary’s newest arrivals on 19 October - 130 tuatara gifted into our care by their kaitiaki (guardians) Ngati Koata.
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Tuatara numbers to treble at Karori
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- Mainland New Zealand’s only wild tuatara population will nearly treble thanks to a second transfer of the iconic ‘living dinosaurs’ from Ngati Koata, kaitiaki of New Zealand’s largest tuatara population on Takapourewa/Stephens Island.
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Outward bound
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- Until now wildlife has arrived at Karori Sanctuary on a one-way ticket. But seven years after the first birds were released at the Sanctuary, bird numbers are booming and the Sanctuary is about to make its first outbound transfer - taking ten of its North Island robins to supplement the small population on Matiu/Somes Island.
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Badly behaved bachelors get new mates.
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- Conservation staff at Wellington’s Karori Sanctuary are hoping that a new conscription of female bellbirds from Kapiti Island will help to restore peace to paradise.
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Spotting ‘little spots’ on Wellington’s wildest night out
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- With a special two-for-one offer on its unique Nocturnal Tours this winter, Wellington's award-winning Karori Sanctuary is definately the place to head for a night out with a difference. And there's even a chance you will spot a 'little spot' - New Zealand's smallest kiwi species!
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New Visitor & Education Centre gets the green light
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- On 5 June 2007, Prime Minister Helen Clark announced that the Sanctuary has been granted $6.5 million dollars from the Significant Community-Based Projects Fund towards our Visitor and Education Centre project.
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It takes tua to tango
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- Less than 18 months ago, tuatara were extinct in the wild on mainland New Zealand. However, in December 2005 an arrangement between Ngati Koata and Wellington’s award-winning Karori Sanctuary saw 70 Cook Strait tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus) transferred from Stephens Island (Takapourewa) to the 225ha wildlife sanctuary in the capital.
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Support YOUR Sanctuary
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- On Wednesday 4 April, Karori Wildlife Sanctuary will hold its second annual street collection as part of its Annual Appeal. Over 100 volunteers will take to the streets around Wellington CBD, Karori, Thorndon, Johnsonville and the Airport. The money they raise will be put towards vital ecological restoration work at the award-winning Sanctuary, which costs over $2 million a year to run.
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Support the Sanctuary Street Appeal & do your bit for Wellingtonâs native wildlife
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- Volunteers from Wellingtonâs award-winning Karori Wildlife Sanctuary will soon be taking to the streets with their collection buckets. And they need YOUR help!
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'Shocking' solution to Sanctuary’s perch problem
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- Some of New Zealand’s top lake management specialists are in Wellington this week on a fishing trip with a difference. They have been deploying New Zealand’s only purpose-built electric fishing boat to remove thousands of exotic fish from Wellington’s world-first Karori Wildlife Sanctuary.
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Gentle giants return to the mainland
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- On Sunday 11 February, volunteers, trustees, iwi representatives and invited dignitaries will watch as up to 100 Cook Strait giant weta (Deinacrida rugosa) are released back into the wild at Wellington’s award-winning Karori Wildlife Sanctuary. This will be the first attempt to re-establish this species on the mainland since they became extinct here over a century ago.
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Karori Sanctuary achieves twin tourism triumphs
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- Wellington’s award-winning Karori Wildlife Sanctuary was recently voted as one of the top ten experiences the New Zealand public wanted to see added to AA’s existing list of 101 Kiwi Must-Dos.
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