Karori Sanctuary Trust launched

8.6km predator-proof fence completed - a world-first!

Pest mammal eradication complete. 13 species eradicated - another world-first!

North Island weka released (captive bred)

Little spotted kiwi released (from Kapiti Island) - their first time back in the wild on mainland New Zealand for over 100 years!

First release of pateke (brown teal)

Little spotted kiwi breeding - first time on the mainland.

First release of scaup (captive bred). Second release of brown teal (captive bred)

First release of North Island robin (from Kapiti Island)

Second release of little spotted kiwi (from Kapiti Island)

First release of North Island tomtit (from Kapiti Island)

First release of whitehead (from Kapiti Island)

First release of bellbirds (from Kapiti Island) - to date the only transfer of this species in New Zealand to result in a new breeding population

North Island robin, scaup and whiteheads breed for the first time at ZEALANDIA

Second release of scaup, North Island tomtit, North Island robin, whiteheads and bellbirds (from Wellington Zoo, Kapiti Island and the Akatarawa Ranges)

First release of North Island saddleback (from Tiritiri Matangi Island) - their first time back in their natural environment on mainland for over 100 years!

First release of North Island kaka (from Auckland and Hamilton Zoos)

First release of kereru (injured rehabilitated birds)

North Island kaka, bellbirds, pateke and North Island saddlebacks breed successfully in the sanctuary for first time

Second North Island kaka release (from Otorohanga Zoo)

100th North Island robin chick banded

Third release of scaup (from Wellington Zoo)

Third release of North Island tomtit (from Akatarawa Ranges)

Third release of North Island kaka (from Pukaha Mt Bruce)

Little shags and North Island tomtit breed in the sanctuary for the first time

First release of hihi (from Tiritiri Matangi Island and Pukaha Mt Bruce) - first time back in their natural environment on the mainland in over 120 years!

Second release of hihi (from Tiritiri Matangi Island)

First hihi chicks banded and fledged

First release of tuatara (from Stephens Island) - the first wild population to be established on the mainland since they became extinct over 200 years ago

First known kereru chick fledges

First transfer of Maud Island frogs (from Canterbury University) - the first time released onto the mainland since the species became extinct here over 100 years ago

Second transfer of Maud Island frogs (from Maud Island)

100th hihi chick banded

First transfer of Cook Strait giant weta (from Matiu-Somes Island).

Tuatara observed mating for the first time

Resource consent granted for the new Visitor & Education Centre

Fourth release of North Island kaka (from Wellington Zoo)

The Trust receives government funding (through the Significant Community-Based Projects Fund) for the new Visitor & Education Centre development

10 female bellbirds transferred (from Kapiti Island)

10 North Island robins transferred from ZEALANDIA (to Matiu-Somes Island) - the first transfer of this species out of the sanctuary

Second transfer of tuatara (from Stephens Island) - population now 200

Tuatara nesting confirmed for the first time - one female known to have nested

100th North Island kaka chick banded

Second transfer of Cook Strait giant weta (from Matiu-Somes Island)

Maud Island frogs breeding confirmed for the first time - two clutches found

100th bellbird chick banded

Tuatara eggs are accidently uncovered at ZEALANDIA - marking the first time that tuatara eggs have been found in the wild on the mainland in over 200 years.

Third transfer Cook Strait giant weta (first time from Mana Island)

First juvenile tuatara found - the first tuatara to hatch on the New Zealand mainland since late 1700s

Four juvenile karearea (NZ falcon) hatched - the first in Wellington City since the 1970s

ZEALANDIA: The Exhibition and the new Visitor Complex open to the public

First pied shag chicks found - the third of four resident shag species now breeding at ZEALANDIA

A census of ZEALANDIA's little spotted kiwi begins to determin population size and condition ten years after the first release. 

Kakariki (red-crowned parakeets) re-introduced (55 birds from Kapiti Island)