IMG_1230 Northland brown kiwi (Apteryx mantelli) Todd Hamilton, Project Manager for the Whangarei Heads Landcare Forum, talks with community members of the Tutukaka Landcare Coalition, in the rain, shortly before releasing a new kiwi into the bush behind Ngungaru *
IMG_0659 North Island brown kiwi (Apteryx mantelli) Dr Isobel Castro and David are two members of a Massey University kiwi research team. Here they radio track kiwi through forest habitat on Ponui Island. Brown kiwi introduced onto this island have a mixed ancestry of both 'Northern' and 'Western' provenance *
DSC_6655 Stoat (Mustela erminea) trapping for predators. Mike Camm coordinates a group of Northland landowners who all keep their properties 'predator free' through the use of Fenn Mk IV traps placed in wooden tunnels to catch stoats, ferrets, and weasels. Trapping benefits local ground nesting birds such as vulnerable brown teal, and Northland brown kiwi *
