Kereru © Steve Couper Photography
Date: 14th August 2023
Even as winter is not done with us yet, we’ve passed the shortest day and the first whiff of spring is not far away. Inland braided rivers of…
Read MoreDate: 14th August 2023
My trapping life started in 2018 helping Hans build the traps for Lake Hayes and was on the checking rotation for a year before helping Dawn get Tucker…
Read MoreDate: 14th August 2023
The marsh crake (Porzana pusilla affinis), or koitareke as it is known to Maori, is one of the most secretive New Zealand birds, largely because it inhabits dense…
Read MoreDate: 29th May 2023
Welcome to the Whakatipu Wildlife Trust’s annual photo competition, all about our local native wildlife. We want to see your very best shots of nature here in the…
Read MoreDate: 24th April 2023
My name is Sean Robertson I’m originally from the southwest of England, I have been in NZ for 13 years and just over 12 in Queenstown. For the last 12…
Read MoreDate: 6th December 2022
The Queenstown Climbing Club conservation squad had a busy November with two planting days at both QEII Remarkables Station and Queenstown Hill. Not exactly trapping but creating habitat and…
Read MoreDate: 30th November 2022
Written by Bonnie Wilkins – Whakatipu Hub Coordinator for SLS and WWT It has been a bad few months to be a possum in Bush Creek, Arrowtown! The…
Read MoreDate: 7th November 2022
We’d like to give a huge thank you to all of those who entered our first Wildlife Photography Competition! We had a lot of amazing entries – well…
Read MoreDate: 18th October 2022
Nerolie and Chris Cook have lived at Drift Bay for 22 years where, along with their neighbours, they have created a beautiful haven filled with native trees and…
Read MoreDate: 18th October 2022
NZ Birds – Otago, with sponsorship from ORC, and technical support of DOC and a University of Otago PhD candidate, have embarked on a regional survey and monitoring…
Read MoreDate: 1st September 2022
Welcome to the Whakatipu Wildlife Trust’s very first photo competition, all about our native wildlife. We want to see what get’s you excited about nature here in the…
Read MoreDate: 4th August 2022
Colin Kelly setting a trap at Kelvin Peninsula
Read MoreDate: 23rd December 2021
Queenstown Climbing Club initially worked with DOC in 2013 to put in a single line of 35 x DOC 200 traps in Wye Creek. Since then, the club…
Read MoreDate: 22nd December 2021
In September the Whakatipu Wildlife Trust installed 3 Nesting platforms in Queenstown Bay. Crested Grebe are a rather rare and unusual species of water bird that is barely…
Read MoreDate: 4th October 2021
Whakatipu Wildlife Trust was awarded a grant through the Curious Minds Initiative funded by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) to undertake a Citizen Science Project…
Read MoreDate: 22nd September 2021
The Tucker Beach Wildlife Management Reserve covers 150 hectares of Department of Conservation land straddling a large bend in the Lower Shotover River. For many years the 60…
Read MoreDate: 7th May 2020
During the last year, the WWT has been involved in a project to look at the possibilities for what a landscape scale approach to predator suppression and eradication…
Read MoreDate: 7th May 2020
While many of our predator free programmes began with a desire to protect birds, Paradise began because of bats. Located at the Head of the Lake bordering Diamond…
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