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Today’s photo shows a ferny glade in Iris Burn valley, Fiordland National Park.
DOC completed its ‘Battle for our Birds’ pest control operation in the Iris Burn valley on Monday.
Iris Burn was identified as one of the sites where rare native species, such as the critically endangered long-tailed bat, whio/blue duck, kākā, and Fiordland tokoeka kiwi, were under greatest threat from rising numbers of rats and stoats.
It is one of 22 confirmed ‘Battle for our Birds’ operations that will use aerially applied 1080 to knock down rising predator numbers fuelled by unusually heavy seeding in South Island beech forests.
Monitoring the effects of the pest control operation will be undertaken in coming weeks.
Photo: Phil Norton | CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.
