Latest News

Keep up to date with all the happenings in the reserve and with the work of the trust...

• Kiwi breeding facility expansion - 19 August 2010
• 2010/2011 Season begins - 19 August 2010
• End of 2009/2010 season - 4 May 2010
• Almost there - 24 February 2010
• Facebook - 17 November 2009
• GSK Chicks hatch - 9 November 2009
• 100th Okarito chick - 9 November 2009
• 2009/10 kiw season begins - 5 October 2009
• First chicks hatch - 5 October 2009
• The big clean up - 15 July 2009
• A successful 2008/09 breeding season - 21 May 2009
• Paparoa GSK chick - 18 February 2009
• Kiwi's hatched - 18 February 2009
• New Tuatara - 18 February 2009
• Kiwi breeding statistics - 12 December 2008
• Princess Anne visits - 3 December 2008
• 08/09 kiwi eggs - 24 September 2008
• 2008/09 Breeding season starts - 29 July 2008
• Final kiwi breeding numbers for 2007/08 - 9 June 2008
• Hannah the GSK wild chick - 9 June 2008
• Great Spotted Kiwi eggs - 18 February 2008
• Numbers of kiwi eggs and chicks - 30 November 2007
• 2007 Breeding season begins - 21 August 2007
• First N.I. Brown kiwi egg 2007 - 5 July 2007
• Tui - 18 April 2007
• Lemurs - 29 March 2007
• Banded Rail - 29 March 2007
• Otago Skinks - 29 March 2007
• Tuatara - 29 March 2007
• predator free island - 28 February 2007
• kiwi breeding season 2006 - 14 February 2007
• Education Programmes Open - 12 February 2007
• Okarito release - 21 December 2006
• Baby Joey's arrive - 14 December 2006
• Current Okarito numbers - 14 December 2006
• Haast Kiwis - 8 December 2006
• North Island Brown Kiwis - 7 December 2006
• Okarito chicks released - 16 November 2006
• Haast Tokoeka Chick hatches - 2 October 2006
• Second Okarito Kiwi egg hatches - 14 September 2006
• First Okarito kiwi chick hatches - 9 September 2006
• First North Island Brown Kiwi hatching - 6 September 2006
• South Island Great Spotted Kiwi together - 18 August 2006
• North Island Brown Kiwi Release - 4 August 2006
• Enderby Island rabbits born - 24 July 2006
• Arrival of Saxon - male Great Spotted Kiwi - 17 July 2006

Otago Skinks

Last year our breeding pair of Otago Skinks produced four live babies. With these skinks being on the critically endangered list, this was a great achievemnet. This same pair have just produced another three babies. Otago Skinks were once widespread in Central Otago, but are now only found in 8% of their former range.