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“Hugely Significant” Kiwi Conservation Milestone Marked
Tuesday, 7 March 2023, 10:46 am | Forest Lifeforce Restoration Trust
Conservationists believe they are close to defining the ideal formula for re-introducing kiwi to wilderness areas where existing populations have been greatly reduced or eliminated by predators. Last month (February) Hawke’s Bay-based Forest Lifeforce ... More >>
Trust Lifts More Kiwi Eggs Than Ever In First Half Of ‘bumper’ Nesting Season
Friday, 17 December 2021, 9:59 am | Forest Lifeforce Restoration Trust
Trust lifts more kiwi eggs than ever in first half of ‘bumper’ nesting season The Forest Lifeforce Restoration Trust looks likely to set fresh records for its Maungataniwha Kiwi Programme following delivery of 54 viable eggs to the National ... More >>
Drive To Save ‘Nationally Critical’ Kākābeak Gets Back-blocks Boost
Tuesday, 16 November 2021, 5:34 pm | Forest Lifeforce Restoration Trust
North Island trampers and hunters asked to keep an eye out for crimson in the green. About 75 specimens of one of the most endangered plants in the country have been planted in three predator-proof areas on a remote property in the back-blocks of ... More >>
One-take Wonders – Hungry Kiwi Turn Their Backs On Second Eggs
Monday, 27 July 2020, 5:12 pm | Forest Lifeforce Restoration Trust
More than half of the kiwi in one of the country’s most prolific conservation initiatives failed to build second-clutch nests or produce an expected second set of viable eggs in the 2019/2020 breeding season. As a result the Maungataniwha Kiwi ... More >>
Rare Mistletoe Come-back In Hawke’s Bay Back-blocks Astonishes Conservationists
Wednesday, 22 July 2020, 5:31 pm | Forest Lifeforce Restoration Trust
An ‘at risk’ species of mistletoe appears to be staging a remarkable come-back in parts of a Hawke’s Bay forest following a highly successful possum eradication programme. More than 200 specimens of yellow mistletoe (Alepis flavida), known as ... More >>
Early spike in rat numbers signals conservation carnage
Saturday, 15 June 2019, 5:26 pm | Forest Lifeforce Restoration Trust
Conservationists in the central North Island warn that native bird populations are due to “take an epic hammering” this Spring when predator populations balloon. Staff of the Forest Lifeforce Restoration Trust have seen a significant increase ... More >>
NZ’s largest pine-to-native forest regeneration project
Thursday, 22 February 2018, 11:53 am | Forest Lifeforce Restoration Trust
The last pine trees have been felled in a major Hawke’s Bay conservation project that aims to convert a 4,000-hectare pine plantation back to regenerating native forest. More >>
Dinosaur treasure trove lures doco crew to Maungataniwha
Friday, 9 December 2016, 11:55 am | Forest Lifeforce Restoration Trust
Filming has taken place in the Maungataniwha Native Forest in inland Hawke’s Bay for a television documentary that looks set to take New Zealand into the homes and hearts of people all around the world. More >>
Mass planting boosts rare tree numbers by 10 percent
Monday, 2 December 2013, 3:18 pm | Forest Lifeforce Restoration Trust
A single mass planting has boosted the national population of the rare and endangered Turner’s kohuhu ( pittosporum turneri , or tent pole tree) by more than 10 percent. The Forest Lifeforce Restoration (FLR) Trust has planted 5,500 seedlings, propagated ... More >>
2013-2014 kiwi egg-lift season kicks off in Hawke’s Bay
Thursday, 5 September 2013, 12:55 pm | Forest Lifeforce Restoration Trust
The Forest Lifeforce Restoration (FLR) Trust has returned its 100th kiwi chick to the inland Hawke’s Bay forest from where its egg was taken. The male bird, named Bocky after well-known local bushman Allan Bockman, was incubated at Kiwi Encounter ... More >>
Cliff scramble gives critically rare plant shot at survival
Tuesday, 26 February 2013, 11:12 am | Forest Lifeforce Restoration Trust
Conservationists have boosted by a third the number of endangered Kakabeak plants known to exist in the wild in New Zealand. Staff at the Forest Lifeforce Restoration (FLR) Trust used a helicopter and abseiled down cliffs to dig 35 of the plants with ... More >>
Kiwi home-swap deepens the gene pool
Thursday, 28 June 2012, 3:05 pm | Forest Lifeforce Restoration Trust
Eight young North Island Brown kiwi switched Bays today in a home-swapping story that illustrates perfectly the complex scientific, collaborative private/public partnership that kiwi conservation has become. Two young males and two young females from the ... More >>
