Скачать или смотреть Capital Kiwi – Meridian muck-in and Terawhiti launch

Capital Kiwi is a community project bringing together locals, iwi, and landowners on the mission to return our namesake to the wild in Wellington. Check out the launch video for a taste of Capital Kiwi spirit. The project area spans 23,000ha from Porirua southwards to Red Rocks and will eventually see 4,400 traps targeting the No.1 threat to kiwi: stoats.

We kicked off in November 2018 with a muck-in at Meridian Energy West Wind and a launch high up on a Terawhiti Station ridge. Before Christmas, Jamie and the ops team set 850 traps on the whenua, which have nabbed dozens of stoats already. We’ve got a big year lined up, with the remainder of the network and our monitoring systems to be deployed, heading up Ohariu Valley all the way to Boomrock and over to Horo...kiwi. As Ted Smith (90) of Makara said: "If we can’t look after our namesake we deserve to be called idiots." Don't mess with Ted. Cheers for your support: the project is based on it – go Kiwi!