Rowi Project Blog

Welcome to Mike Robb, our new trainee ranger who started last week.  Mike is completing the National certificate in Conservation through the Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology.  The course is designed by DOC and Learning State and is registered on the NZQA framework.  DOC fully supports this course and works in partnership with NMIT to produce graduates who are trained and experienced in most DOC basic fieldwork roles.

Mike will be with us for four months as part of his course work and will be assisting the rowi team in undertaking egg and chick rescues, monitoring kiwi and pest populations in the Okarito kiwi zone.  After the last week spent inducting Mike in the ways of the rowi, Anna - another fairly recent addition to the Rowi Team herself - took him out for his first egg lift and possibly his first glimpse of a kiwi. The healthy egg was rescued successfully and made for a great first field experience for Mike.

Mike Robb

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