Karori Sanctuary and Tuatara
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Te Herenga Waka community supports tuatara research at Zealandia
- Victoria University of Wellington
- More than 700 people from the Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington alumni community attended a friends and family event on Saturday 22 March.
- Accepted from VUW News feed by feedreader
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- karori-sanctuary
- tuatara
Zealandia, Lake Road, Highbury, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Tuatara transfer trebles mainland population
- Karori Sanctuary Trust
- 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
- Karori Sanctuary Trust
- 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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- conservation
- tuatara
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It takes tua to tango
- Karori Sanctuary Trust
- 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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Tuatara Day at Karori Wildlife Sanctuary
- Karori Sanctuary Trust
- Come face-to-face with our unique living fossils and talk to the experts who study them. Some people call the Sanctuary �Jurassic Park�, referring to our trademark 2-metre high predator-proof fence. But recently this nickname has become even more appropriate, because the Sanctuary is now home to a prehistoric animal whose close ancestors were around with the dinosaurs.
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Tuatara have arrived!
- Karori Sanctuary Trust
- The ancient and rare tuatara returned to its natural environment on mainland New Zealand for the first time in over 200 years, when 70 tuatara were welcomed to Wellington?s Karori Wildlife Sanctuary on Friday 2 December.
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- tuatara
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