Communities keen to restore our region’s biodiversity are invited to get out their green thumbs. Greater Wellington’s winter planting season is underway, with a goal as lofty as the treetops: to get one million plants in the ground. The winter planting .
It s as vulnerable as the great spotted kiwi, but gets nowhere near the same attention.
A beleaguered shorebird colony on Wellington Harbour has had a turn of fortune thanks to understanding cat owners, a monitoring group says. In previous years, the Eastbourne banded dotterel colony has been plagued with cat problems – last year a single fledgling survived after a tabby was caught on camera raiding nests throughout the breeding season. The year before not a single chick survived. Parker Jones, co-ordinator from the Mainland Island Restoration Operation (MIRO), said the 2020-2021 breeding season had given volunteers a boost in confidence with the survival of three fledglings from 12 nests.