DOC's work with the brown teal/pāteke
To return pāteke to a viable level we, as a community, need to bring about full recovery of the species and become involved in the recovery process.
There are four main approaches to recover pateke nationally:
Brown teal group, Great Barrier Island
- predator control
- habitat restoration
- captive breeding and release of birds to form new safe populations
- raising public awareness to the threats and management opportunities that exist in assisting the species to recover.
The long-term recovery goal is that pateke are not threatened and are national icons of wetland and forest ecosystem health, and sustainable farming practices.
Current work being undertaken by the Department of Conservation on the pāteke includes:
- Securing pateke at key sites on Great Barrier Island and Northland.
- Establishing a new large population of pāteke in Moehau Kiwi Sanctuary and the Clinton/Arthur valley in Fiordland, using captive bred birds.
- Supporting landowners and landcare groups to establish populations at other sites including Cape Kidnappers, Tawharanui, and Tutukaka.
- Habitat restoration, maintaining pasture levels at suitably short lengths and fencing livestock out of nesting areas, providing zones of riparian vegetation along streams and ponds.
Learn more
Brown Teal Online
An organisation dedicated to the promotion and protection of Pateke.
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