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Sanctuary Diary - What's New
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| Captured on camera – the first
ever image of tuatara mating in the wild on mainland New Zealand,
at Wellington’s Karori Sanctuary Photo by Tom Lynch (More...) |
Auction
and Quiz Evening
28 June 2008
Each year a group of sanctuary volunteers organise and run a quiz evening as a fundraiser for the sanctuary. You can support this evening as a sponsor or by entering a team. (More...)
Latest Nature's Corner
Read about a celebrity gecko, summer flowers, butterfly road rage, welcoming more demon grasshoppers, and a macabre incident that made quails quail. (More...)
Buy your Entertainment Book from us!
Once again, Karori Sanctuary is raising funds by selling the 2008/2009 Entertainment™ Book. We receive $11 from the sale of each Book, so it’s a great way for you and your friends to support our ongoing ecological restoration work. (More...)
Tuatara transfer trebles mainland population
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| One of the transferred tuatara |
Around a hundred invited guests and some fantastic weather greeted the Sanctuary’s newest arrivals on 19 October - 130 tuatara gifted into our care by their kaitiaki (guardians) Ngati Koata. (More...)
Outward bound: North Island robins the first birds to be transferred out of Karori Sanctuary
Until now wildlife has arrived at Karori Sanctuary on a one-way ticket. But seven years after the first birds were released at the Sanctuary, bird numbers are booming and the Sanctuary is about to make its first outbound transfer - taking ten of its North Island robins to supplement the small population on Matiu/Somes Island. (More...)
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| Measuring bellbird |
Badly-behaved bachelors get new mates
Conservation staff at Wellington’s Karori Sanctuary are hoping that a new conscription of female bellbirds from Kapiti Island will help to restore peace to paradise. (More...)
Grab a free newspaper!
The Sanctuary is delighted to form a sponsorship partnership with The Dominion Post. Visitors will receive a free copy of The Dominion Post compliments of the Sanctuary each time they visit!
So, on your next visit, grab your free copy of The Dominion Post - but only while stocks last!
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Events
Recent Website Additions and Updates
- News Releases: Giant tui takes to the streets to help raise money for Sanctuary
- What's New: Kereru Issue 36 - March 2008
- News Releases: NIWA helps Sanctuary in the great perch search
- What's New: Latest Nature's Corner (Summer 2008).
- News Releases: Precious froglets arrive in time for Leap Year
- News Releases: Sanctuary showdown: intruder apprehended
- Sanctuary Story: Jim's Story: the founding of Karori Sanctuary.
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