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Grisly Welcome to Stewart Island

A second fatal dog attack on a Stewart Island brown kiwi/tokoeka in just four months has angered residents who support calls for dog owners to stop their animals wandering. Stewart Island Flights staff made the discovery while checking the weather at the Ryan’s Creek airstrip on Sunday (11 Novembe...

Rare Kiwi Thriving on Tiritiri Matangi

Little spotted kiwi have more than doubled in number on their Hauraki Gulf island home in the last five years, according to the results of a recent Department of Conservation survey. The population of kiwi on Tiritiri Matangi has grown to more than 60 (estimated at 60-80 birds) from about 30 birds i...

New Zealand's National Icon Threatened

Protesters opposed to the use of 1080 toxin in a possum control operation undertaken by the Animal Health Board on Department of Conservation land, are threatening to kill rare kiwi in the area. A sign nailed to a tree in site of one of five national kiwi sanctuaries, has been discovered by DOC staf...

Man Fined for Taking Dog in National Park

Taking a dog into Nelson Lakes National Park has resulted in a $500 fine for a Christchurch man and the Department of Conservation says the incident was particularly concerning because dogs pose a danger to kiwi living in the national park. The 29-year-old man had pleaded guilty to a charge of allow...

Kapiti Island Fire Investigation Underway

An investigation is underway into the cause of a fire that destroyed a ranger’s house on Kapiti Island yesterday. The single storey wooden dwelling, built at Rangatira during the mid-1990s, caught alight late yesterday afternoon. The ranger, one of two based on the island, had been working at the ...

Waitangi Kiwi Safe After Logging

The Bank of New Zealand Save the Kiwi Trust is delighted that an intensive monitoring programme involving patient loggers, Department of Conservation staff and a specially-trained dog has kept two pairs of North Island brown kiwi safe during logging in the Waitangi Endowment Forest. “Gemma & Pirip...

Kiwi Chick Named and Dad Discovered

The kiwi chick produced at Rimutaka Forest Park in February has been named by the volunteer trappers ... and his father found after a two month disappearance. When ideas were called for a dozen names were put forward, and at a social gathering last week, Maataamua was chosen as the chick's name. Maa...

Future of Conservation at Stake

“If we cannot carry out aerial 1080 operations, more than half the country currently under intensive pest control on public conservation land will be left to the ravages of possums, rats, stoats and other pests,” Department of Conservation Director-General Alastair Morrison said today. Mr Morris...

New Report on Status of Kiwi

A new report detailing the status of New Zealand's national bird, the kiwi, was launched today by Conservation Minister Chris Carter. The report highlights a huge increase in private kiwi conservation efforts around New Zealand, and was launched at Auckland Zoo to mark the end of Bank of New Zealand...

Kiwi Stars of Zoo's Waitangi Day

New Zealand’s national bird will share the limelight with visitors at Auckland Zoo’s Kiwi & Kids event on Tuesday 6 February (10am to 2pm) in celebration of Waitangi Day. The zoo is inviting visitors to mark New Zealand’s national day by learning about how they can personally make a difference...

New Zealanders Donate Record Amount

Thanks to the generosity of thousands of New Zealanders, the endangered kiwi has more money and muscle behind its plight than ever before. The increase in donations is due largely to the number of Bank of New Zealand customers who are opting for kiwi EFTPOS cards and kiwi cheque books....

Kiwi Release at Pukaha Mount Bruce

The first two kiwi chicks conceived in the wild at Pukaha Mount Bruce for more than a century were released into the forest today. They were joined by a chick produced by Rangi and Tua, the kiwi in the Pukaha Mount Bruce kiwi nocturnal house. The chicks have all been hand reared since they hatched i...

First Kiwi Chick Found at Nelson Lakes

The Department of Conservation first moved great spotted kiwi/roa to the area in May 2004 to set up a kiwi population in the Rotoiti Nature Recovery Project in Nelson Lakes National Park. It was the first reintroduction to the project of a species that had disappeared from the area.Two years on, DOC...

Student Finds Kiwi Chick

Te Anau student finds kiwi chick in excellent condition. Te Anau School student Kail Huber joined DOC Biodiversity Rangers Jane Tansell and Pete Kirkman last week to monitor the growth of a kiwi chick as part of the Bank of New Zealand’s Save the Kiwi’s work....

Bird Flu – the Plan for Kiwi

Below outlines a question/answer session regarding bird flu and its threat to kiwi with Paul Jansen, head of the Bank of New Zealand Kiwi Recovery Group. About bird fluSince late 2003, the H5N1 strain of avian flu has killed more than 100 people and in recent weeks has spread with alarming speed int...

Creating a Safe Environment for Kiwi

The public are being invited to comment on the draft of a dog management strategy aimed at protecting kiwi being released by the Rimutaka Forest Park Trust into the park in May. Developed by the Department of Conservation, the strategy proposes to strictly enforce legislation allowing the exclusion ...

Kiwi Romance Helps Kiwi Research

The Moehau Kiwi Sanctuary has gone full circle since it was established in 2000 with the release of the first kiwi chick produced by a monitored kiwi in the area. As part of Bank of New Zealand Kiwi Recovery, monitored kiwi are fitted with radio transmitters so they can be tracked and studied. This ...

Franz Josef Teacher Awarded Fellowship

Franz Josef Glacier School teacher Julie Wolbers has been awarded a NZ Science Mathematics and Technology Teacher Fellowship scheme for 2006. Funded by Government and administered by the Royal Society of New Zealand, the fellowship seeks to raise the profile of science, mathematics, social sciences ...

Dog Crushes Kiwi - Egg Alive

Kiwi eggs orphaned after a Waverley dog attacked the adult have been rescued by DOC staff. The dog’s owners rang the department to say his dog had killed a kiwi and he had removed two eggs from the nest. DOC staff said one of the eggs was found to be infertile and the other was rushed to the Kiwi ...

Pukaha Chick First for a Century

For the first time in over 100 years a kiwi chick conceived in the wild has hatched at Pukaha Mount Bruce. The chick, which emerged from its egg yesterday, is the offspring of a male and female released into the Pukaha Mount Bruce forest in northern Wairarapa in December 2003. It was part of the Puk...