DSC_7821 Emeritus Professor Sir Alan Mark has been one of this country's staunchest defenders of the living land. He is seen here seated in snow tussock grasslands - his specialist field. Te Papanui Conservation Park, Lammerlaw Range, Otago *
DSC_6259 Lowland Longjaw galaxias (Galaxias cobitinus) DoC officers Daniel Jack and Ciaran Campbell, monitor summer water quality in longjaw habitat in one of the lower reaches of the Waitaki River. Our rarest native fish lives here in marginal shallows of the river channels. Kauru River
11001-70814 Kakapo (Strigops habroptilus) the late Don Merton with 'Waynebo' in the forest on Pearl Island. Waynebo fathered at least eleven kakapo chicks before he died in January 2012 *
