Whangarei Kiwi Sanctuary Annual Report 2009-2010
Published:
November 2010
The Whangarei Kiwi Sanctuary (WKS) was established in 2000 to protect the rapidly declining population of the Northland provenance of the North Island brown kiwi. The population of kiwi in the WKS was estimated at 2089 in 2008 (Carlin and Murphy 2008).
The objective of this document is to provide a summary report on all aspects of the WKS operations for the 2009-2010 species year.
Summary
The report includes the following chapters:
- Introduction
- Objective
- Predator control
- Mustelid and cat control
- Kiwi aversion training for dogs
- 1080
- Rodent and mustelid indexing
- Sanctuary monitoring
- Adults
- Sub-adults
- Wild chicks
- Cause of death
- Kiwi dog work
- Kiwi listening
- BNZ Operation Nest Egg™
- Matakohe-Limestone Island ONE crèche - kiwi search and capture
- Motuora Island ONE crèche - kiwi search and capture
- Advocacy
- Dog campaign
- Media
- Staffing
- Whangarei Heads Landcare Forum report (by Todd Hamilton) 2009-2010
- BNZONE 2009/10
- Whangarei Heads Landcare Forum trapping
- Kiwi listening results at Whangarei Heads
- Acknowledgements
- References
Publication information
Published by: Department of Conservation, Whangarei Kiwi Team