by Save the Kiwi | Jun 18, 2023 | Sponsors
A new kiwi conservation partnership will allow guests of one of New Zealand’s largest hotel group, Millennium Hotels and Resorts New Zealand, an opportunity to donate a meal or a ‘room’ for a night to Save the Kiwi. This innovative approach sees the guest reducing...
by Save the Kiwi | Jun 5, 2023 | Forestry, Kiwi Champions
Kiwi can only thrive in native forest, right? Wrong. In fact, New Zealand plantation pine forest is becoming increasingly valued as a viable option for growing and expanding kiwi populations to help reverse the population decline of Aotearoa’s national bird. In May...
by Save the Kiwi | May 19, 2023 | Chasing Zero, Jobs for Nature, John Bissell, Predator Control
Kia ora team, There is always much to discuss around the trap line. This month, I want to discuss what I call the ‘trap and hope’ epidemic. Everywhere we are working in the predator control front, we are increasing the hectares under control and the species targeted....
by Save the Kiwi | Apr 21, 2023 | Crombie Lockwood Kiwi Burrow, Kohanga Kiwi, Media, Save the Kiwi
18 years after four kiwi chicks were gifted from Ngāti Hikairo ki Tongariro to Ngāti Korokī Kahukura to create a founder population of kiwi at Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari, kiwi have returned to their whenua (homeland). In 2005, Ngāti Hikairo ki Tongariro, one of...
by Save the Kiwi | Mar 28, 2023 | Kohanga Kiwi, Media
More than two years after a stoat incursion put a halt to kiwi being released onto Auckland’s Motutapu Island, this week approximately 25 juvenile kiwi will be released onto the motu, heralding the re-launch of Save the Kiwi’s “To the motu and back” Kōhanga Kiwi...