Kiwi restoration project is going quite well. In 2018 we were hoping for conservation efforts to get a 2% (2600) increase in pop and they managed 7000 instead.
The strat is to raise them in a safe place until they’re big and then let them go. The teenagers and adults have less trouble surviving its the babies who are super vulnerable.
At one point they were gone from the wild. But we have a few small islands that are pest free. The kiwis were able to live there. Now we are clearing the mainland of rats and stoates and releasing kiwis back into the wild.
The Tokoeka (North Island Brown Kiwi) has never been gone from the wild, there’s always been over 20,000 in the wild, mostly in Northland, Coromandel, Te Urewera, and Tongariro. The Southern Tokoeka is also hanging on alright in Rakiura (Stewart Island) and a little in Fiordland. The Roroa (great spotted) and little spotted are near extinct in the wild, the little one particularly is totally wiped out from the North Island and mostly only found on predator free island sanctuaries now.
Kiwi restoration project is going quite well. In 2018 we were hoping for conservation efforts to get a 2% (2600) increase in pop and they managed 7000 instead.
The strat is to raise them in a safe place until they’re big and then let them go. The teenagers and adults have less trouble surviving its the babies who are super vulnerable.
I genuinely thought kiwi birds were extinct
Are you thinking of dodos? Both have short repetition in their name, but those guys are gone.
At one point they were gone from the wild. But we have a few small islands that are pest free. The kiwis were able to live there. Now we are clearing the mainland of rats and stoates and releasing kiwis back into the wild.
The Tokoeka (North Island Brown Kiwi) has never been gone from the wild, there’s always been over 20,000 in the wild, mostly in Northland, Coromandel, Te Urewera, and Tongariro. The Southern Tokoeka is also hanging on alright in Rakiura (Stewart Island) and a little in Fiordland. The Roroa (great spotted) and little spotted are near extinct in the wild, the little one particularly is totally wiped out from the North Island and mostly only found on predator free island sanctuaries now.