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Volunteers claim “some sort of record” as 46 eggs are lifted over two nights Watch YouTube short here In what they believe might be “some sort of record”, staff and volunteers working with a Hawke’s Bay-based conservation trust retrieved 46 kiwi eggs in just two days from nests in the Maungataniwha Native Forest adjacent to […]

Another productive kiwi breeding season (Q4 2024 – Q2 2025) saw a leading conservation trust return 75 juvenile kiwi to the bush, bringing its total tally to 769 since 2006. Hawke’s Bay-based Forest Lifeforce Restoration Trust delivered 84 viable eggs this season to the National Kiwi Hatchery in Rotorua, the Gallagher Kiwi Burrow near Taupō

Work is bringing glorious native plant back from the brink Conservationists in Hawke’s Bay are boosting by 25 percent the collection of genetically diverse kākābeak plants available to supply seed and cuttings to a species recovery initiative bringing this glorious New Zealand native back from the brink of extinction.   Napier-based organisation The Urban Kākābeak

For young kiwi to be raised safely and released, first we need to nab Dad In early May a group of avid kiwi conservationists gathered at Waiau Camp, deep in the Maungataniwha Native Forest in inland Hawke’s Bay, to search for and catch as many adult male kiwi as they could. Over two days the

When the National Kiwi Hatchery in Rotorua incubated its 2500th bird last month, the moment also marked a milestone for conservationists in Hawke’s Bay. The special chick could become the 700th kiwi from the Maungataniwha Native Forest, adjoining Te Urewera, to be released back into the forests of the central North Island. This achievement is

Infrastructure repair work from Storm Gabrielle in February has been a massive drain on the Trust’s people, resources and finance – and looks set to remain so for many months yet. We will burn through hundreds of thousands of dollars by the time we have recovered to the extent we can. Recovery costs of this

Infrastructure repair work from Storm Gabrielle in February has been a massive drain on the Trust’s people, resources and finance – and looks set to remain so for many months yet. We will burn through hundreds of thousands of dollars by the time we have recovered to the extent we can. Recovery costs of this

Conservationists working in the Maungataniwha Native Forest in inland Hawke’s Bay say “weird” kiwi nesting behaviour in the summer of 2022/2023 is repeating this year. There was an unusually-high number of third clutch eggs last year, while this year there is significant overlap between first and second clutches. Kiwi normally produce eggs in two distinct

Infrastructure repair work from Storm Gabrielle in February has been a massive drain on the Trust’s people, resources and finance – and looks set to remain so for many months yet. We will burn through hundreds of thousands of dollars by the time we have recovered to the extent we can. Recovery costs of this

Third clutch blurs the line between kiwi breeding seasons A productive kiwi breeding season (Q4 2022- Q2 2023) in Hawke’s Bay saw a leading conservation trust deliver 96 viable eggs to the National Kiwi Hatchery in Rotorua as part of the national Operation Nest Egg conservation drive, two more than last year’s record. Kiwi lay