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 29, 2022 | Crombie Lockwood Kiwi Burrow, Media, Save the Kiwi
Last Friday, the kiwi chick that hatched on live television in February was released into its new home at Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari, accompanied by one of the presenters who was one of the first to welcome it into the world. On February 16th, the kiwi chick...
by Save the Kiwi | Jul 2, 2021 | Crombie Lockwood Kiwi Burrow
Final chick of the season flies the coop If you’d asked the Crombie Lockwood Kiwi Burrow team at the beginning of the 2020/2021 kiwi hatching season how they thought it was going to go, they probably would have shrugged their shoulders. The dedicated incubation,...