More Meet the Locals videos
Meet the Locals is a series of four-minute mini-documentaries exploring the stories of New Zealand's wildlife and wild places, and the people working to protect them.
Join DOC's Nic Vallance as she learns about tuatara and tuatara conservation.
Watch a video about New Zealand's tuatara and find out how the tuatara 'headstart' programme works.
This video shows how the removal of rats from Little Barrier Island or Hauturu has cleared the way for tuatara as well as many other native species to thrive in the kind of place New Zealand once was.
Cuvier Island tuatara are extremely rare and some are raised in captivity at Auckland Zoo. Find out what is involved in getting these long-lived reptiles back into the wild.
Watch this video to find out about the great work that the New Zealand Centre for Conservation Medicine does at Auckland Zoo.
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