Kiwi wow AGM!

Those attending the April AGM were treated to a brief business session before guest speakers Paul Ward and Jeff Hall from Capital Kiwi gave a stunner of a presentation on the successful reintroduction of kiwi to the wild on the outskirts of Wellington.

Trapping began in 2018 before the first of 206 birds were released in 2022, and they are successfully breeding with a survival rate that is happily above the target minimum.

The speakers emphasised how the project is community driven, “built on the passion of people like yourselves”, iwi and landowners.

“It’s about all of us”.

The land covered by the Capital Kiwi project covers an area roughly the size of Abel Tasman National Park, from Red Rocks in the south up through Mākara and Ōhariu Valley to Whitireia Park in the north

You can see more about the project area here on the Capital Kiwi website.

Soooo…. Kiwi are coming!!

A timely word on dogs on leash here:

Please ensure when you are out and about walking with your doggos that they are always on a leash in the reserves where on a leash is signposted (you’ll see this at reserve entrances as below)

This is probably the most important thing we need to be doing right now to protect our wildlife, and if you haven’t been it’s a really good time get into the habit 🙂

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Your committee elected at the AGM is unchanged:

John Burnet (President), Gary Beecroft (Vice President), Geoff Mills (Secretary), Chris Paice (Treasurer), Andrew Liley, Richard Herbert, Damian Hewett and Andrew Hunt.

Article Source: FOTBR Newsletter June 2025