by Save the Kiwi | Jul 10, 2023 | Kiwi Champions
Al Grant is used to working long hours and in unpredictable environments. By day (and often by night), the police senior sergeant spends his time keeping the streets of South Auckland safe. But in his downtime, he volunteers his time to keeping kiwi safe. Al’s kiwi...
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 | Feb 9, 2023 | Case Studies, Jobs for Nature, Kiwi Champions
Miro Parsonson hasn’t heard a kiwi calling near his family home for at least a decade. As a child, the 29-year-old remembers falling asleep to the shrill calls of kiwi in the forest that surrounds the home his parents built from scratch deep in the Far North’s...
by Save the Kiwi | Sep 6, 2022 | Kiwi Champions
Kā nui te mihi e maha katoa i pānui tāku kōrero. Ko Paul O’Shea tōku ingoa. My te reo Māori journey began on a pretty momentous occasion for Save the Kiwi: October 20th 2012. On this day, the first kiwi were released onto Te Motutapu a Taikehu in the Hauraki Gulf....
by Save the Kiwi | Jul 20, 2022 | Kiwi Champions
“Kiwi numbers in Whangārei Heads wouldn’t be anywhere near where they are without the support of volunteers.” Luke Ogle lives and breathes the environment. Born and raised in rural Northland, he spent a lot of time as a kid in the great outdoors, planting native trees...
by Save the Kiwi | Apr 7, 2022 | Kiwi Champions
For Aaron Power, conservation is a way of life. Right from a very young age he always had one foot in the bush. A few decades on and now with kids of his own, doing what he can to protect Aotearoa’s environment for future generations remains a top priority. “The bush...
