by Rachael Dell | Apr 24, 2020 | News
ANZAC Bridge – leading to a brighter future by Alex Wall Photos contributed by Esther Bunning and Friends of ANZAC Bridge A short drive north along State Highway 2, just 2.7 kilometres past Pūkaha National Wildlife Centre sits ANZAC Bridge at Kaiparoro. The...
by Rachael Dell | Apr 20, 2020 | News
Telling the story of conservation – a student internship at Pūkaha by Rachael Dell Photos by Jack O’Connor When an Australian university recommended its students explore conservation beyond the classroom, it led science student Jack O’Connor across...
by Site Manager | Feb 16, 2020 | News
The return of Pūkaha to Rangitāne by Rachael Dell Pūkaha was once known as ‘the great domain of Whātonga’ – Te Tapere Nui o Whātonga. The forest was lush and dense and stretched from the mountains north of Dannevirke, across to the Ruahine Ranges and back down to...
by Site Manager | Nov 26, 2019 | News
Our Newest Arrival by Alex Wall Photos: Tara Swan Which bird is black and tan and rarely seen in any New Zealand forest? Need some clues? Once common throughout the North Island, its numbers were decimated by the introduction of rats and stoats that arrived...
by Site Manager | Nov 14, 2019 | News
Our Oldest Inhabitants by Alex Wall Tuatara are sometimes referred to as ‘Living Fossils’ because the oldest fossils of Tuatara are found in rocks from the Jurassic age – 180 million years ago. That means that the ancestors of Rewa and Taku were around at the time...
