Wednesday, 22 April 2015, 11:43 am
Press Release: New Zealand Government
Battle For Our Birds a great success
Conservation Minister Maggie Barry says the success of the Battle For Our Birds programme is a welcome victory for endangered native species.
The Department of Conservation today released preliminary monitoring results for the eight-month long anti-predator campaign.
“There are thousands more native birds alive today than there would have been without the work done by DOC’s Battle For Our Birds last summer,” Ms Barry says.
“If we had done nothing and treated it as business as usual, the rat and stoat plague accompanying last year’s beech mast would have wiped out local populations of some of our rarest birds such as the kakariki, mohua/yellowhead or whio/blue duck.”
Last spring brought with it a once-in-15 year beech mast, with more than a million tonnes of seed dropped by beech trees in South Island forests.
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