Where: St Johns Ambulance Station Training Room, Kerikeri

When: 3 May 2012

Who should attend: Trappers and kiwi project managers

For more info contact: Clea Gardiner

Email: cleaandglen@xnet.co.nz

Mobile: 027 4837 050

Her school enjoyed a highly entertaining visit from the Bugman, plus she has received a basket full of kiwi goodies, including kiwi chocolates, books, a drink bottle and a gift certificate so she can shop online at Kiwi Shop.

Thank you to everyone who entered!

The role will be supervised by the senior technician (CWMC) and involve:
• Animal husbandry at our captive animal research facility
• Assisting with logistics of field trials
• Participation in a number projects with researchers
• Maintaining equipment for field and laboratory use

The skills required:
• Knowledge of  animal husbandry and animal handling techniques is desired
• An appreciation of animal ethics and humaneness
• Some experience with traps, poisons, radio-collars, field work, biodiversity monitoring
• Practical ability to help  extend and maintain our captive animal research facility
• High level of physical fitness, and acumen for field work

The applicant should have:
• Degree in wildlife management, ecology or equivalent work experience in wildlife management
• A full NZ drivers license
• Experience driving off-road vehicles and quad bikes would be an advantage

The position will be full time and based at Lincoln University. Some travel around NZ is necessary.

Applications Marked 'Confidential' or enquiries to:

o Email CharlesEason@lincoln.ac.nz">CharlesEason@lincoln.ac.nz
o Phone  021 224 0028

Closing date for applications is 30th Nov  2011.

"But while we know we have been successfully controlling predators, we still know very little about the kiwi themselves. Is their population growing? How, if at all, are they are affected by forest operations?" Mr Couper asks.

"Hence the decision to put kiwi monitoring into the hands of the Project Kiwi Trust and to appoint the Trust's contractors to carry out the predator control work after a well-subscribed tender process."

The Trust was the country's first community-led kiwi conservation project. Established on the Kuaotunu Peninsula, near Whangapoua, the Trust pioneered predator control strategies, captive-rearing strategies including Operation Nest Egg, kiwi tracking and predator-proof fencing. Its experience is now being applied by numerous community wildlife protection initiatives around the country.

Project Kiwi Trust Chairman Fraser Lampen says, "the Trust is thrilled to be appointed as the manager of the biodiversity enhancement programme in the Whangapoua forest. This new relationship with Ernslaw One helps ensure the long-term financial sustainability of our work, allowing us to achieve our primary goal of protecting and enhancing the Coromandel kiwi population."

The new pest control contractors are Jono and Paula Williams who will work with Project Kiwi to manage the area.

Dr John McLennan, the original designer of the pest and predator control programme, is a

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• Managing our captive animal research facility

• Managing the planning and logistics of field trials

• Co-coordinating a number of projects and resources with researchers

• Providing input and guidance on the development of new pest control and animal monitoring tools

• Liaising industry collaborators, landowners and our key stakeholders

• Managing contractors who live-traps animals for the laboratory and assist with field trials

• Maintaining equipment for field and laboratory use

The skills required:

• Knowledge of pest control in New Zealand, animal husbandry, animal handling techniques and biodiversity monitoring

• An understanding of animal ethics and humaneness

• The ability to use traps, poisons, radio-collars and to plan and conduct animal monitoring and control studies

• Practical skills to undertake construction to extend and maintain our captive animal research facility

• The ability to undertake field work with a relatively high level of physical fitness

• Practical field experience in vertebrate pest control and animal monitoring

• The ability to assist researchers with work plan development

The applicant should have:
• Graduate or technical qualifications in ecology, zoology or practical experience in wildlife management or the vertebrate pest control industry

• A full NZ drivers license

• Experience driving off-road vehicles and quad bikes would be an advantage

• Good practical skills and initiative

The position will be full time and based at Lincoln University. Some travel around NZ is necessary.

Applications Marked 'Confidential' or enquiries to:

o Email Charles Eason
o Phone   021 224 0028

Closing date for applications is 30th Nov  2011.

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The Kiwi eggs are kept safe and warm until they hatch, allowing the newborn chicks to get a strong start in life away from predators such as stoats and cats. Once the chicks reach a healthy weight of around 1kg they are returned to the wild.

Rainbow Springs involvement in kiwi conservation began in 1995 with the arrival of an orphaned egg and the hatchery has grown over the years to become the largest kiwi hatching facility in New Zealand, successfully incubating and hatching brown kiwi from around the North island.

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