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Island Conservation
Conservationists celebrate a conservation win after the Brown Kiwi and the Okarito Kiwi are downlisted from ‘Endangered’ to ‘Vulnerable’. Two of New Zealand’s iconic Kiwi species have been downlisted from Endangered to Vulnerable after a 30-year effort to save the small, flightless birds. The North Island Brown Kiwi and the Okarito Kiwi (Rowi) have both […]
Scientists are unsure whether Wellington’s Lesser Short-tailed Bat, New Zealand’s only endemic land mammal, has been extirpated or not. Kevin Hackwell, Forest and Bird Advocacy manager, claims that no recordings of Short-tailed Bats have been captured on their monitoring equipment for several months. However, Briggs Pilkington, acting operations manager for Wairarapa branch of the Department of […]