DSC_8101403 Brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula) trapping. Possums are a significant threat to forest remnants, and native wildlife on Otago Peninsula. Winter is the best time to trap them. OPBG Operations Manager Bruce Kyle and dog Puku, wait for dusk in a macrocarpa shelter belt, always a popular haunt for possums in winter. Possums are a significant threat to native forests and our native wildlife. Photographed on Otago Peninsula's Harbour Cone block for OPBG *
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
