by Save the Kiwi | Oct 30, 2023 | Media, Save the Kiwi
New Zealand charity committed to saving the kiwi, Save the Kiwi, is calling for all New Zealanders to back our national bird in this year’s Bird of the Century campaign. Save the Kiwi executive director Michelle Impey says the winner should be obvious. “There’s only...
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 | Feb 9, 2023 | Case Studies, Everyday Kiwis, 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 | Aug 11, 2022 | John Bissell, Predator Control
Kia ora team, Well, we had quite a reaction to the previous blog on cats. Given it was somewhat of a controversial subject, I was pleased to hear that you considered that I had got the balance right. And when you talk about nature and working to protect it, balance is...
by Save the Kiwi | Jul 20, 2022 | Everyday Kiwis
“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...
