Southern Ruahine Kiwi (SRK) is partnering with ENM to become an independent Charitable Trust grounded in local iwi values and aspirations.
Once home to kiwi, the southern Ruahine Ranges have been without them for more than 50 years due to predators. SRK is leading a collaborative effort to bring kiwi back and over 2,000 traps are now in place.
Robert will talk about the work in 2025 with Save the Kiwi to develop comprehensive plans for pest management and environmental monitoring, exciting new tech on the horizon, progress with setting up a charitable trust, funding successes and what we are doing with the money raised. There is still work to be done with funders to back the full plan and create jobs for fieldworkers. In the meantime, we are pulling out all the stops to keep the momentum going.
Speaker: Robert Gibb, Ruahine Kiwi Project Lead
Image by: Anthony Behrens, Manaaki Ruahine, CC-BY 3.0
Part of a monthly programme of talks presented by Forest & Bird Manawatū Branch.
All welcome.
