Tuatara and Karori Sanctuary
-
-
Media release: Tuatara siblings move to Wellington Zoo as Zealandia ecosanctuary's wild population flourishes
- Zealandia
- 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 ...
- Accepted from Zealandia HTTPS by feedreader
- Tagged as:
- karori-sanctuary
- tuatara
Zealandia, Lake Road, Highbury, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
-
-
-
Injured Tuatara returned to Zealandia after treatment at Zoo
- Wellington Zoo
- A Tuatara with an amputated tail was recently released back to its home at Zealandia after treatment and recovery at The Nest Te Kōhanga, Wellington Zoo’s native wildlife and animal hospital.
- Accepted from Zoo news scraper by feedreader
- Tagged as:
- karori-sanctuary
- tuatara
Wellington Zoological Gardens, Melrose Crescent, Melrose, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6023, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
-
-
-
Injured Tuatara Returned to ZEALANDIA After Treatment at Wellington Zoo
- Zealandia
- A tuatara with an amputated tail has recently been released back to its home at ZEALANDIA after treatment and recovery at The Nest Te Kōhanga, Wellington Zoo’s native wildlife and animal ...
- Accepted from Zealandia HTTPS by feedreader
- Tagged as:
- karori-sanctuary
- tuatara
Zealandia, Lake Road, Highbury, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
-
-
-
Rehabilitated tuatara released at ZEALANDIA
- Zealandia
- An injured tuatara found outside ZEALANDIA’s fence by a local resident has been released back into the sanctuary, after spending 7 months being rehabilitated at Wellington Zoo’s The Nest Te Kōhanga.
- Accepted from Zealandia news
- Tagged as:
- tuatara
- karori-sanctuary
Zealandia, Lake Road, Highbury, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
-
-
-
Local woman saves adventurous tuatara
- Zealandia
- Lorna Borrett was startled to find the tuatara while walking her dog Dobby. She wasn’t sure what it was and phoned her partner Jacob Rosevear. ”I only knew of tuatara through the brand of beer, which Jacob drinks.” “It was kind of a cool experience – there can’t be that many people in the world that have come across a tuatara in the wild,” Ms Borrett said. Lorna immediately alerted Zealandia staff who were quick to the scene. The tuatara was taken to Wellington Zoo’s The Nest Te Kōhanga where it was assessed and admitted for rehabilitation.
- Accepted from Zealandia news
- Tagged as:
- tuatara
- karori-sanctuary
Zealandia, Lake Road, Highbury, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
-
-
-
Juvenile tuatara to come of age at Zealandia
- Zealandia
- It’s Tuatara February at Zealandia. To celebrate, five juvenile tuatara will be released into the sanctuary this evening when they are returned from Victoria University of Wellington’s captive incubation programme. “In the wild, eggs hatch after 12 – 15 months and hatchlings will often emerge when the next season’s eggs are being laid,” explained Zealandia Conservation Manager, Raewyn Empson.
- Accepted from Zealandia news
- Tagged as:
- karori-sanctuary
- tuatara
Zealandia, Lake Road, Highbury, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
-
-
-
Tuatara ambassadors are ready for the spotlight!
- Zealandia
- The tuatara is an ancient reptile with three eyes and no penis. Its ancestors once walked with dinosaurs and it is often called a “living fossil”. We call it a “living treasure”. These strange features are just a few reasons why Zealandia is celebrating this unique species during Tuatara February. By training two ambassador animals to help explain their strange natural history, visitors can get up close and personal or name one of these special creatures. After being brought to Zealandia from Southland Museum, the two tuatara have been in training to help them feel more at ease in human company and comfortable being handled.
- Accepted from Zealandia news
- Tagged as:
- tuatara
- karori-sanctuary
Zealandia, Lake Road, Highbury, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
-
-
-
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.
- Tagged as:
- tuatara
-
-
-
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.
- Tagged as:
- conservation
- tuatara
-
-
-
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.
- Tagged as:
- tuatara
-
-
-
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.
- Tagged as:
- tuatara
-
-
-
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.
- Tagged as:
- tuatara
-
