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Closures July 2024
- 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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Sanctuary Closure 23-25th July
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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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Ngaio Community Working Bee with Zealandia
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- “When was the last time you heard the intricate melody of a tūī’s song? What about the sharp shriek of a kākā? If recently, that means all is going according to plan. Wellington is one of the few cities in … Continue reading →
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Birds of a (variety of) feathers
- Zealandia
- 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
- Zealandia
- 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)
- Zealandia
- 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.”
- Zealandia
- 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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Release the Frogs!
- Zealandia
- 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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Mātauranga in Action
- Zealandia
- 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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First Line of De-Fence
- Zealandia
- 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!
- Zealandia
- 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!
- Zealandia
- 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
- Zealandia
- 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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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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Keeping tabs on the new residents
- Zealandia
- 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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To feed or not to feed? Bringing birds to your backyard
- Wellington City Council
- With the urban location of Zealandia Te Māra a Tāne, manu (birds) of all kinds are visiting backyards around Wellington.
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Beloved Zealandia takahē Nio dies, aged 19
- Zealandia
- 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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Wild Wellington at heart of artist’s cover-art inspiration
- Wellington City Council
- Meet Carrie Carey, the Pōneke artist behind the lovely screen print of Zealandia which adorns the cover of the latest Our Wellington – Tō Tātou Pōneke.
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Flying the nest
- Zealandia
- 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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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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Take Action: 'Sponsor a Fish' and help freshwater thrive
- Zealandia
- 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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Changing the current: Fish passage in Aotearoa
- Zealandia
- 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
- Zealandia
- 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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Kaiwharawhara Catchment - Why you should give a Dam
- Zealandia
- 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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Who let the dogs in?
- Zealandia
- 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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Actions for the Awa
- Zealandia
- 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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The Wrap Up (Weeks 3 & 4, Term 1 2024)
- Wellington High School
- Experience the energy from Rā Aroha as students signed up to sports and clubs for 2024. Find out about Year 12's visit to Zealandia, and look at careers opportunities for senior students. Why not consider hosting an International Student or signing up for free courses with the Community Education Centre. All this and more in this Wrap Up!
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Wellington High School, Taranaki Street, Mount Cook, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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The Wrap Up (Weeks 3 & 4, Term 1 2024)
- Wellington High School
- Experience the energy from Rā Aroha as students signed up to sports and clubs for 2024. Find out about Year 12's visit to Zealandia, and look at careers opportunities for senior students. Why not consider hosting an International Student or signing up for free courses with the Community Education Centre. All this and more in this Wrap Up!
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Plague skinks: What's in a name?
- Zealandia
- 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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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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Zealandia
- Experience New Zealand's unique and endangered native animals living wild in our unique fenced safe haven, less than 10 minutes from central Wellington. One of your best chances of seeing kiwi, tuatara and many other iconic species outside of captivity!
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Karori Sanctuary Feeds
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Zealandia HTTPS
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Zealandia news
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Zealandia feed
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- Latest Item: 6 Jun 2016
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Zealandia blog feed
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