Pekapeka/bats hold a special place in Kiwi hearts as New Zealand’s only native land mammals, but how do these tiny nocturnal fliers respond to artificial light? As it turns out, not well.
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We catch-up with our Fiordland Bat Diaries team as they hunt for a new short-tailed bat colony, in the remote Murchison Mountains. In part three the team sets transmitters on the bats and sets up cameras to monitor bats roosting sites.
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Native bats are something few New Zealander’s know exist, let alone have ever seen. Two species live in Fiordland and local rangers are undertaking monitoring in order to protect and learn more about these special little critters.
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Christmas was fast approaching and most people were anticipating Santa’s reindeer; however, in the Whirinaki Te Pua-a-Tane Conservation Park, DOC rangers were on the lookout for another sort of flying mammal.
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Threatened Species Ambassador Nicola Toki updates us on the work to set science-based goals to achieve better outcomes with for our threatened flora and fauna.
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