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For teachers - a resource at levels 2 through 5 of the New Zealand Curriculum.Habitat Protection
Kiwi will live almost anywhere – they don’t need pristine native
forest, and are also found in scrub, exotic plantation forests, rough
farmland and sand dunes, even mangroves. They especially like places
with wetland vegetation, and where trees run down to river edges.
Published in 2004, by the Department of Conservation in Northland, Restoring the balance covers what landowners can do to help protect biodiversity values on their land. It provides a one-stop-shop of practical ideas, tools and actions to help landowners identify their property’s natural values and the threats they may face, and decide what management techniques they may want to apply.
Legal protection ensures that your conservation achievements will continue, usually forever. It also means you can ask agencies, such as the Nature Heritage Fund, QEII National Trust, local authorities or Ngā Whenua Rāhui (for Māori land), to help with funding for survey, legal and fencing costs.
As part of its publication – Protecting and restoring our natural heritage: A practical guide – the Department of Conservation explains some of the legal protection options available – many can be tailored to suit the wishes of the landholder.
In 2005, the Department of Conservation’s Northland conservancy published Your land, our support, providing advice to landowners on how to maintain land’s productive capacity along with its biodiversity.
Greater Wellington Regional Council has published a resource called Managing your bush block: A guide to looking after indigenous forest remnants in the Wellington region. It provides tips and techniques of managing bush blocks, small patches of native forest or scrub.
Kiwi Forever
For teachers - a resource at levels 2 through 5 of the New Zealand Curriculum.Volunteer
Volunteers are increasingly important to the future of kiwi. Join them.
Threats
Kiwi face many threats on the New Zealand mainland.
Did You Know?
In 1800, millions of kiwi lived in forests, scrub and sand dunes. Today, only about 70,000 kiwi are left in all of New Zealand, and the place we’re most likely to see them is a zoo or bird sanctuary.