Tuesday, 16 February 2021, 4:40 pm
With all of Lake Wairarapa to play in, it can be a lonely
life for a juvenile kākahi, the native New Zealand
freshwater mussel. While there are plenty of the adult
mollusc living on the lake bed, juveniles are few, and it is
cause for concern.
This year’s annual kākahi
monitoring survey day at Lake Domain Reserve in the
Wairarapa recorded reasonable numbers of adult kākahi, but
not a single juvenile.
The kākahi monitoring
programme, now in its seventh year, is one of a number of
projects underway at Lake Wairarapa as part of the Wairarapa
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