Mastodawn

The "Friends of Rangikapiti" are a voluntary group who have planted thousands of native trees and operated a pest eradication programme with DOC support in the Rangikapiti Pa reserve at Mangonui. Yesterday they had a working bee clearing weeds around young trees planted last winter. They have done amazing work for the benefit of us all and, because of their efforts, the native birds have come back - including a resident kiwi.A must visit place with great walks if you ever visit the Far North. #aotearoa #doubtlessbay #environment #reforestation #pesteradication

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Apr 28, 2024

Great spotted kiwi found far from home
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350254729/great-spotted-kiwi-found-far-home

"The discovery of this #kiwi at the northern tip of the #SouthIsland is being hailed as remarkable, and a boost for local #PestEradication efforts... Once common in the area, there had been no sightings of kiwi in the hills behind #Pūponga for decades... Finding it there raised not only the profile of the #conservation land, but a whole heap of questions: Where the kiwi may have come from, is it resident, has it walked a long way?"

Stuff

AustralianHistoriesPodcast Nov 25, 2022

Bravo Kiwis of both kinds. 🙌
A good news story to encourage us all.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/26/intrinsic-to-our-identity-kiwi-brought-back-to-wellingtons-wilds

📸 image: Neil Hutton
#Kiwi #Birds #Conservation #PestEradication #Regeneration #GreenSpace #GoodNewsAotearoa #AustralianHistory

‘Intrinsic to our identity’: kiwi brought back to Wellington’s wilds

Introduced predators and habitat loss saw New Zealand’s national bird vanish from the capital 100 years ago. A new cohort of 11 birds is changing all that

The Guardian