DSC_7352 Northland brown kiwi (Apteryx mantelli) chick release. Todd Hamilton, Project Manager for Backyard Kiwi (at rear), and Ben Barr, ranger for Limestone Island, carry the latest kiwi chick onto the refuge. The island, now a predator free sanctuary, once produced cement for the Golden Bay cement company *
11005-28815 West Coast tree weta (Hemideina broughi) captive female with Paul Barrett at Wellington Zoo *
DSC_7836 Emeritus Professor Sir Alan Mark has been one of this country's staunchest defenders of the living land. He is seen here in the snow tussock grasslands - his specialist field. Te Papanui Conservation Park, Lammerlaw Range, Otago *