Although most land managers welcome red kites and have played a key role in the reintroduction programme, A few that are involved with game management continue with indiscriminate and illegal abuse of banned agricultural pesticides by laying poison baits. read more at wildlifextra
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Kakapo breeding season 2007-8 to use artifical insemination
The Department of Conservation is preparing to trial artificial insemination this kakapo breeding season in a bid to help boost numbers and increase genetic diversity within the small population. In December the sound of booming male kakapo will herald the start of the breeding season on Codfish Island / Whenua Hou, an island sanctuary located […]
Extinct sea bird, the New Zealand Storm-petrel, once again caught off New Zealand
The New Zealand storm petrel, which was thought to have been extinct for 150 years until rediscovered in 2003, has again been sighted and recently captured in the Hauraki Gulf off the North Island of New Zealand, but its breeding site remains a mystery. A team, including Department of Conservation staff and scientists, caught three […]