Stopping Ferrets in Their Tracks
There’s trouble in the foothills of Kahurangi. Ferrets—one of New Zealand’s most cunning predators—have been spotted in the Flora Stream, the Tablelands, and surrounding valleys. Over the past 12 months, 25 ferrets have been caught in the Graham, Baton, and Motueka Valley alone—and that’s just the ones we know about! With kiwi, whio, and weka […]
Growing a Native Corridor: The Te Mamaku Story
It all started with a friendly chat. A couple of locals looked at an overgrown stretch of SH6 and asked, “Wouldn’t it be great to do something about it?” That small idea quickly grew into something remarkable—an ambitious community project to create a thriving native forest to connect the Moutere Inlet with the Waimea Estuary, […]