Hardworking nature lovers from across Aotearoa will receive a special acknowledgement for their conservation efforts in a new Forest & Bird project launching today, as part of its centennial celebrations.
The Whenua Hou Diving Petrel (WHDP) has been classified as ‘Nationally Critical’ with the entire population existing as a single colony of ~200 individuals on the sand dunes of Whenua Hou/Codfish Island.
Forest & Bird are saddened to hear that the necropsy of a Hector’s dolphin – which was killed in a net off the Otago Coast at the end of April – has been identified as a female of the 'nationally vulnerable’ species.