The rāhui was lifted at 7 am on Friday 14 May and all operations and activities on the mountain can recommence. In respect for the passing of the two climbers near the summit last week, a rāhui had been in place since Wednesday 5 May. Ngā Iwi o Taranaki and DOC thank the public for respecting the rāhui, an important…
TV One – Seven Sharp The return of kiwi after an absence of decades is thanks to the massive community effort to reduce predators numbers on the Kaitake Range. Watch the Seven Sharp article here. Fiona Gordon from Rotokare Scenic Trust, Tane Manu of Ngā Mahanga a Tairi and Sian Potier from the Taranaki Kiwi…
Radio New Zealand Six kiwi have been released onto the Kaitake range in Te Papakura o Taranaki / Egmont National Park where the call of our national bird has been absent for decades. The release is a milestone in a battle against predators on Kaitake being waged – for the most part – by a small army…
Taranaki Daily News A vanguard of three adult kiwi have been released into hills near New Plymouth as part of a historic reintroduction of the native birds into the area. Over the next few days 10 western brown kiwi will be released into the Kaitake Range near Taranaki’s famous Pukeiti garden. The range is close…
Taranaki Daily News Jacinda has been found living on maunga Taranaki – no, not the Prime Minister, but an extremely rare type of wētā which is named after her. It is the furthest south that Hemiandrus jacinda has been spotted, and managers of the Te Papakura o Taranaki say it is proof efforts to trap predators within…
Taranaki Daily News Research projects by two post-graduate university students have revealed more about the dietary behaviour of predators on Mt Taranaki. Massey University zoology graduate Fern Kumeroa, and Lincoln University natural resource management and ecological engineering graduate Katie Coster were involved in separate studies with similar aims during the summer. Kumeroa, of Ngāti Ruanui,…
Taranaki Daily News When it comes to trapping the predators that harm New Zealand’s native wildlife, a group of South Taranaki students are making a big noise. Instead of only relying on food as bait, students from Auroa School, near Hāwera, have made sound lures, electronic devices that use noises such as baby birds cheeping,…
Taranaki Daily News Adult kiwi are soon to be re-released onto Taranaki’s Kaitake ranges for the first time, prompting a warning for dog owners to keep their pets leashed around the park area. The kiwi are to be released onto the range in about three month’s time, following extensive trapping and aerial 1080 operations that…
Taranaki Daily News After years of sporadic pest control efforts, an intensive barrier of traps has reduced numbers of rats and other predators on Nga Motu/Sugarloaf Islands, offshore of New Plymouth, to almost zero. Around 19 species of seabirds, numbering around 10,000 birds in total, including endangered shearwaters, nest on three of the five offshore…
Chew card versus Infrared camera efficiency when hunting the last few possums – A mainland New Zealand eradication tool use lesson By Tim Sjoberg, Taranaki Mounga Research and Innovation Lead In order to successfully indicate whether Predator Free 2050 projects have completely removed possums from specific areas, in 2019 baited chew cards were trialled…
Taranaki Daily News Taranaki dairy farmer Fiona Henchman can now declare victory in a personal war of the roses she has waged against possums for a quarter of a century. With husband John she has fought a backyard battle against thousands of possums hopping over the boundary fence from Egmont National Park to munch on…
Lessons from our Kaitake Range possum trap network – Why not to use single set removal traps for possum eradication attempts? By Tim Sjoberg, Taranaki Mounga Research and Innovation Lead In 2016, the New Zealand government announced the ambitious aim of removing rats, possums and stoats from mainland New Zealand by the year 2050 (Predator…
