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Innovative electric barrier protects mudfish habitat

Department of Conservation —  23/04/2024 — 1 Comment

An underwater electric barrier is providing a safe haven for the ‘nationally critical’ Canterbury Mudfish/kōwaro.

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Ranger reflections from a week at Rotomairewhenua

Department of Conservation —  23/11/2023

Last summer ranger Sam Fisher got to spend a week as hut warden at Rotomairewhenua / Blue Lake. It’s the site of the clearest freshwater in the world, but it’s at risk from an invisible threat.

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Finding the fish that swam with dinosaurs  

Department of Conservation —  28/09/2023

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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