Auckland Islands Survey
Now that the excitement of the trip is behind us, our sub-antarctic clothing has been washed and stowed, photos downloaded and the team has dispersed the length of the country, life is back to normal and we can look back on what we achieved during our 4 weeks away. The sub-antarctic populations of yellow-eyed penguin…
Royal Society of New Zealand Awarded Teaching Fellow – Jim Young
Jim Young, a teacher from Catlins Area School and a recipient of a Royal Society of New Zealand – Awarded Teacher Fellowship, spent 2010 working at Long Point. Jim ‘s project, ‘Whakaora Irahuka: restoring the white cliffs’, investigated aspects of seabird restoration at Long Point/Irahuka. This included surveying and mapping seabird habitat, establishing vegetation plots, examining predator…
Long Point February 2010
Fencing / reserve opening / nest checking Aaron Sutherland and his crew from South Otago Fencing completed the fencing at Long Point just before Christmas, despite the often challenging weather and terrain. All up around 3km of fencing went in, plus carparks were formed at Helena Falls & Manuka Beach. The opening of the reserve…
Codfish Island surveys 2001-2012
Last surveyed fully in 2001, Codfish Island/Whenua Hou is considered one of the strongholds of the Stewart Island penguin population. It was one of the study sites for the Trust’s 2003-2008 research into factors affecting penguin breeding success. Two of the original surveyors, Dave Houston and Dean Nelson from DOC, and Sandy King from the Trust…
Nursery gets a hand from Malcam Trust
The YEPT Nursery was lucky enough to have youths from the Dunedin Malcam Trust Conservation Corps (assisted by their supervisor, Garth Hassall) build two additional stand-out boxes. The plants are placed on these boxes several weeks before they are to go out to the habitats to ‘harden off’ (decreased watering) so that they adjust to similar…
Fond farewell to Gateway student
This week we said goodbye to our Dunedin Gateway student from Bayfield High School, Max Buxton, who worked with nursery staff and volunteers on Wednesdays during 2009. We are happy to know that Max is heading to Lincoln University in 2010 to further his studies. Max has been a very positive and lively participant at…
