It provides information for:

• People who would like to find out more about our amazing national bird - the kiwi
• People who are actively engaged in helping protect kiwi
• People who think they would like to become involved, and want to find out more

You may like to bookmark this page because we will be updating its contents as new things come to hand. 

If you have anything you would like to share through the site, or can identify a gap in what we have provided, please contact savethekiwitrust@bnz.co.nz

The links from this page take you directly to each resource - either a page on this website, a page on another website, or a PDF file.  Where we can, we have provided some background information on what the resource contains - to read this before you download it, click on its name in the list you can see on the left-hand side of this screen. 

• Information on how the Bank of New Zealand Save the Kiwi Trust allocated its funding in 2004/2005
  
  
• Information on where you can visit and see kiwi
  
  
• Links to other web sites providing information about kiwi.
  
  
• A link to hear what kiwi calls sound like.

• The official and comprehensive Kiwi Survival Guide 2,246 Kb PDF file), produced by the Bank of New Zealand Save the Kiwi Trust
  
  
• The kiwi's future is in our hands brochure (316 Kb PDF file), produced by the Bank of New Zealand Save the Kiwi Trust
  
  
• The official Kiwi (Apteryx spp.) Recovery Plan 1996-2006, produced by Hugh A Robertson.
  
  
• The official Kiwi Best Practice Manual - 2007 (2.3 MBb, PDF file). The Kiwi Best Practice Manual Appendices - 2007 (870 Kb, PDF file).
  
  
• The How to Save Kiwi DVD provides some basic tutorials and information on how you can help save kiwi.   It is aimed at volunteers and agencies working hard to save kiwi, and to train others to help with the cause.
  
  
• The Kiwi First Aid and Veterinary Care document provides information about the treatment of sick or injured kiwi (Apteryx spp.) for veterinarians, conservation field workers and wildlife park staff..
  
  

• The Captive management plan for kiwi (2004). Threatened Species Occasional Publication 24. 42 p. No further printed copies of this are available. (PDF, 213K)

  
  
• Kiwi Recovery Programme: Annual Report 2001/2002 financial year
  
  
• Contact details for some of the other private groups who are currently involved in helping to protect kiwi
  
  
• Kiwi Report Card – a card for anyone who wants to report a kiwi encounter
  
  
• Kiwi Call Scheme – information on how to contribute to the programme collecting information on the distribution of kiwi
  
  
• The Department of Conservation’s stoat control research programme
  
  

• Restoring the Balance - Self Help Kit. This resource aims to help you identify the existing biodiversity values of your land and protect what you already have. Find out about pest control, planting trees, habitat protection, access to outside funding and how to create an action plan.  

Keep watching this space… the Department of Conservation is working towards making some of its research work available publicly as PDF's.  More files will be posted on this site as they become available.