Karori Sanctuary Trust / January 2008
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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Return of the native
- Karori Sanctuary Trust
- 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
- Karori Sanctuary Trust
- 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.
- Automatically tagged as:
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Muddled morepork
- Karori Sanctuary Trust
- We've all heard of 'Night Owls' but this morepork at Karori Sanctuary was caught on camera at 1pm on a Friday afternoon!
- Automatically tagged as:
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Troublesome tui
- Karori Sanctuary Trust
- 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!
- Automatically tagged as:
- karori-sanctuary
- karori
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