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 Animals  Jacquelin - 14 days ago - nzherald.co.nz Twenty-eight rare kiwi eggs have been removed from the Okarito kiwi zone this spring, stunning the Department of Conservation, which collected three this time last year.
The Okarito brown kiwi, or rowi - the rarest species of kiwi - was considered to b
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 Animals Jacquelin - 14 days ago - nzherald.co.nz Dr Phil Bishop is happy. Some frogs have croaked, as in died. Why does that bring a smile to his face? Because he is confident he can isolate the cause of death, in this case a fungus he has been researching for the past five years.
In August, a Dunedi
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 Animals Jacquelin - 15 days ago - nzherald.co.nz High country farmers are being urged not to break the law to stop a protected bird preying on their livestock.
The kea, known for its intelligence and inquisitive nature, is turning to live sheep for food, which can result in a slow and miserable death
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 Animals Jacquelin - 96 days ago - nzherald.co.nz Jean-Michel Cousteau is, like his late father Jacques-Yves Cousteau, an ocean explorer. He is in New Zealand this month to find and film orcas, or killer whales, using the experience and contacts of whale researcher Dr Ingrid Visser.
Orcas are the larg
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 Animals  Cher - 136 days ago - timesofindia.indiatimes.com New Zealand plans to ban commercial fishing near its coast and set up marine reserves to protect the rare Hector's dolphins, a government minister said on Thursday.
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 Animals Cher - 157 days ago - scoop.co.nz Conservation group Care for the Wild International (CWI) says that urgent action needs to be taken now to protect New Zealand's Hector's and Maui's dolphins from commercial and recreational fishing; if not these endangered dolphins will soon become
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 Animals Jacquelin - 159 days ago - dsc.discovery.com In the wake of international buzz generated by a certain half-ton colossal squid last week, scientists and staff at The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa yesterday began the careful dissection of another rare marine specimen: a pygmy right whale.
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 Animals Jacquelin - 165 days ago - nzherald.co.nz Forest and Bird is concerned that a new permit allowing prospecting for minerals off the coast of the North Island could create a new hazard to the Maui's dolphin, which is on the verge of extinction.
The organisation's conservation advocate, Kirstie K
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 Animals Cher - 187 days ago - wildlifeextra.com Alec Milne, an amateur ornithologist from Golden Bay, in the Nelson region at the top of the South Island, has reported to the New Zealand Department of Conservation that he has recently heard what he believes was the call of the South Island kokako at
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 Animals Jacquelin - 188 days ago - news.com.au NEW Zealand man has been charged with assault after he threw a hedgehog at a teenage boy.
"It hit the victim in the leg, causing a large, red welt and several puncture marks,'' police sergeant Bruce Jenkins told the Herald on Sunday.
Shortly after
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 Animals  Simone - 189 days ago - plentymag.com The introduction of stoats into the New Zealand ecosystem has proven devastating for the island nation's endangered takahe, a rare species of flightless bird.
First brought to New Zealand as an attempt to control feral rabbits (themselves an
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 Animals Cher - 192 days ago - online.wsj.com Norsk Leather & Fur in Park City, Utah, recently supplemented its displays of beaver and lynx throws with something new: a fur pitched as eco-friendly. The fur comes from the brushtail possum, a marsupial native to Australia that has become a forest-dest
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 Animals Simone - 193 days ago - careforthewild.org Today it really is crunch time for New Zealand's dolphins. In October last year, the NZ Department of Conservation and Ministry of Fisheries released their draft of the "Hector's and Maui's Dolphin Threat Management Plan" on which the public were invited
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 Animals Jacquelin - 193 days ago - news.yahoo.com WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A species of flightless parrot edged back from extinction with the hatching of five new chicks in New Zealand in recent weeks and two more on the way, officials said Monday.
The latest births of owl-like kakapos in southern N
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 Animals Cher - 199 days ago - tvnz.co.nz Nelson's zoo, which was due to shut up shop next week, has been given an eleventh hour reprieve. Natureland was to permanently close its doors next Monday despite public protests earlier this month.
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