13:28,
Dec 14 2018
A tourism
company's efforts to put conservation at the heart of their operations appears
to be bearing fruit as native birds flock back to Rotorua's Dansey Road Scenic
Reserve.
Forest
zipline company Canopy Tours has just finalised its bi-annual monitoring and
trap resetting and found little evidence of dead predators across their 515
traps.
The
intensive pest control programme has been running for five years and Canopy
Tours conservation lead Scott Davis said it was inspiring to see native birds
return.
"It's
really exciting to see different species coming back and a greater number of
all species in the reserve. The tangible impact of five years of
conservation blitzes is a win for all Kiwis," Davis said.
Recent
new arrivals to flock back to the reserve are more sightings of Kārearea (New
Zealand Falcon), our nation's only threatened bird of prey with only 3000-5000
breeding pairs left in existence, along with two species of cuckoo -
Pīpīwharauroa (Green Shining Cuckoo) and the Koekoeā (Long Tail Cuckoo).
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