Latest Breaking News On - Simon walls - Page 4 : comparemela.com

Supplied Seabirds once flourished on South Nguroa Island, off Golden Bay s remote western coast, but all have been wiped out. A handful of rock stacks along the five kilometre long stretch of coast running between Cape Farewell and Nguroa along Golden Bay’s remote western flank have for eons provided breeding havens for upwards of 10,000 burrow-nesting fluttering shearwaters and diving petrels. In effect, they are Kahurangi arks. Around half of these breeding seabirds used to live on the largest of these ‘bird islands’, 72m-high South Nguroa Island which lies a150m offshore just north of Nguroa Bay. But no more. They have been wiped out, almost certainly wiped by stoats, who swam out to the stack and climbed its near vertical conglomerate sides which have two arches through its base.

New zealand generalNew zealandGolden bayCape farewellGreg nappIan millerWharariki ecosanctuaryPakawau group conglomerateFarewell wharariki ecosanctuaryFarewell wharariki healthpost natureSouth nguroa islandSimon wallsFarewell wharariki ecosanctuary trustFarewell wharariki healthpost nature trustSouth nguroaTakaka aerodrome