To celebrate Forest & Bird’s 100th birthday, we’re searching for the bird that has captured New Zealanders’ hearts over the last century! There are 75 brilliant manu in the running, including five species that became extinct since 1923.
Centennial Speaker Series | New Zealand’s unbalanced conservation strategy: predators & browsers
In this webinar, Dr Andrea Byrom and Dr John Leathwick will discuss their recently published research that drew attention to the lack of national effort to manage deer and other hoofed browsers while the focus has been on Predator Free 2050.
After starting Ark in the Park in the Waitakere Ranges, John Sumich went on and started Habitat te Henga, protecting Auckland's largest wetland. It involved trapping for stoats to enable the re-introduction of pāteke (brown teal) in 2015 and 2016.
Forest & Bird member Jill Visser set up a volunteer group to restore a former wetland on the Kāpiti Coast because she wanted to take hands-on action to help mitigate climate change.
Forest & Bird is concerned about the risk to endemic Westland petrels from a proposed industrial-scale mining operation south of Punakaiki. By Suzanne Hills, chair of Forest & Bird’s West Coast Branch.
A short easy walk, there and back, with spectacular gorge and river scenery, dryland shrubs and native fungi growing in the damper spots. Maybe even a falcon!
