Archives For 30/11/1999

A collaborative conservation project in Hokitika is restoring the largest community greenspace and bringing back native habitat for birds and whitebait through the Jobs for Nature programme.

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Zooming in on a precious, unusual, and poorly understood native freshwater fish, known around the country as lamprey, kanakana and piharau.

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For 25 years a small team of bird experts have flown into the Landsborough valley to measure how bird life is bouncing back after predator control.

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Catching bats is a tricky business. We have a few tools up our sleeve to help like special nets and traps but when you are looking for a needle in a hay stack a lure helps too… including a saw?!

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Pre-pandemic, Jan and Mike Goodall were “off their feet” busy running Te Koha – a carve-your-own-pounamu studio. While their business is down pre-COVID levels, their love for nature has grown. Read all about how Jan and Mike have a softspot for Jobs for Nature and it’s impacts on their lives.

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