Brian Parkinson's Guide to Unique Wildlife of New Zealand.

Te Papa Atawhai Department of Conservation.   Native Species Fact Sheets
Albatross,   Kakapo,   Kea,   Kereru,   Kiwi,   Kokako,   Mohua (Yellowhead),   Stitchbird,   Takahe,   Fur Seal,   Seals,   Whales,   Pekapeka (Bats),   Kiore (Pacific Rat),   Chevron Skink,   Koura (Freshwater Crayfish).
Throughout New Zealand, the Department of Conservation manages Showcase areas, where the public can see conservation at work. Trounson Kauri Park,   Tiritiri Matangi Island,   Ruakuri Caves and Bush Scenic Reserve,   Mt Bruce National Wildlife Centre,   Rotoiti Nature Recovery Project,   Otago Central Rail Trail,   Ulva Island Open Sanctuary.

Manatu Mo Te Taiao Ministry for the Environment
The State of New Zealand's Environment 1997

The Kiwi Conservation Club, a Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society project for children.
To support the preservation of New Zealand's native flora and fauna, join the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society. Call 011-64-4 385-7374 or fax 011-64-4 385-7373.   Excerpts from past issues of the Forest & Bird magazine.
New Zealand Ecological Society   The Ecologic Foundation.
Naturespace - New Zealand.   Public Access
New Zealand Association for Environmental Education.
National Directory of Environmental Education Resources
Native Forest Action is committed to halting logging of publicly-owned native forests by a state-owned-enterprise Timberlands West Coast.
Resource Management Act 1991.
RMA-NET New Zealand Environmental Law Online (to subscribers).
Resource Management Law Association.
New Zealand Centre for Environmental Law.
Enviromart a free, confidential service devoted to the reuse and recycling of unwanted materials. ( # 4/06 )
The Isaac Centre for Nature Conservation at Lincoln University.
New Zealand's Threats & impacts.   In the past 800 years, humans and accompanying pests have eliminated 32 percent of the indigenous land and freshwater birds, 18 percent of seabirds, 1 of 29 species of freshwater fish, 3 of 7 frogs, perhaps 3 of 64 reptiles, 1 of the 3 bats, possibly 11 of about 2300 higher plants, and at least 12 invertebrates such as snails and insects.

Terra Nature Fund a California nonprofit corporation based in San Francisco, is working to conserve land, protect native birds and other endangered fauna, and restore habitat in New Zealand. This provides New Zealanders living in the United States, who are interested in supporting the environment at home, with the opportunity to make tax-deductible donations.

The Miranda Shorebird Centre on the Firth of Thames.
Miranda The refuge of migrants.
The Moehau Kiwi Sanctuatry.
The Cape Kidnappers Gannet Colony.   Gannets at Muriwai.
Black-billed gulls.
White-fronted terns at Muriwai.
The Mount Bruce National Wildlife Centre
Karori Wildlife Sanctuary Wellington.
Ocean Wings in Kaikoura for pelagic (ocean going) birds.
The Taiaroa Head albatross colony on the Otago Peninsula.
Stewart Island birds.
Unique life on the Chatham Islands.
The endangered Kakapo, a flightless and nocturnal parrot extinct on the North & South Islands is now found only on a few small islands off-shore.
Kea - Nestor notabilis, New Zealand mountain parrot.
The Kereru wood pigeon.     Brown Teal
Penguins in New Zealand.
NestCam inside a blue penguin nestbox via an infrared camera.
Hoiho Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust.
Hedwig's Penguin Home.

Nga Wharangi Moa Moa pages by Mike Dickison.

The Huia.

Bat flight at Rangatua.
New Zealand's Unique Burrowing Bats Are Endangered.

Chamois, Thar, Red Deer, Sika Deer, Rusa Deer, Sambar, Whitetail Deer, Wapiti, Fallow Deer, Wild Goats, Wild Pigs and Sheep on Hunting New Zealand.

The Tuatara. A survivor of the Dinosaur age.

The New Zealand Birding Network offers bird-watching orientated tours, excursions and accommodation.
Kiwi Wildlife Tours small group tours to see some of New Zealand's unique birds, bats and marine mammals in some of the most wild and beautiful places on earth.
Catlins Wildlife Trackers.

Seafriends marine conservation and discovery projects.
Seaweek 2007 March 4 - 11   activities include public displays, harbour festivals, beach clean-ups, guided intertidal walks, art exhibits, school events such as role plays and field trips.
Treasures of the Sea   Nga Taonga a Tangaroa
Biodiversity in the New Zealand Marine Ecoregion.

Dolphin encounter.
New Zealand Whale and Dolphin Trust.
The Whale-watching web: New Zealand.
The Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary
Orca Research   Whale Trail   8 day small group tour of marine mammal watching hotspots in New Zealand.

The giant Kokopu - a rare native trout in the galaxias family and the biggest of the whitebait species.

New Zealand Native Freshwater Fish Society.

New Zealand fish species on   FishNZ.

Hoki | Ling | Orange Roughy | Hake | Salmon | Snapper

Rock Lobster | Greenshell™ Mussels | Paua | Squid

Peter Schuchert's pictures of New Zealand Hydrozoans.

Black Coral, Nudibranchs, Brachiopods, in Milford Sound.
Milford Deep Underwater Observatory. Learn about the marine life of the Piopiotahi Marine Reserve from the interpretation displays, then descend to the viewing chamber nine metres below the waterline to observe the corals, anemones, sponges and fish species within their natural habitat.

In January 1996 researchers netted three dead giant squid 600 miles east of New Zealand. This news made the USA Today cover story on February 1st and appeared on CNN.
From February through March, 1997 Dr. Clyde Roper of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History led an expedition to study the biodiversity and community structure of Kaikoura Canyon's deep-sea fauna, sperm whales, and Architeuthis -- The Giant Squid. Read the Expedition's Journals.

A 25-foot-long male giant squid (Architeuthis kirki) from New Zealand displayed in the Hall of Biodiversity at the American Museum of Natural History.

Wetas, short for the Maori word 'wetapunga' meaning 'Monsters of the Night' or perhaps 'God of the Ugly Things' are large wingless nocturnal insects in the family Stenopelmatidae.
New Zealand Invertebrate Speciation.
New Zealand Arthropod Collection   Lepidoptera images
The National Nematode Collection   The earthworm hole.
Peripatus   Onychophorans, of which there are several endemic species in New Zealand, share a number of characteristics with both annelids (segmented worms) and arthropods.
Extracts from Fauna of New Zealand Online.

The Matakohe Kauri Museum.
The kauri tree, Agathis australis, is a type of conifer or pine tree which is unique to the subtropical northern part of the North Island. Tane Mahuta is approximately 1250years old, 4.4 metres in diameter and it's first branch is 17.7 metres from the ground.

Kanuka and manuka.

There are 4 native New Zealand species of the genus Fuchsia that occur elsewhere only in Latin America (+120 species) and Tahiti (1 species).   Fuchsia cultivation notes.
Fuchsia excorticata, kotukutuku, is a tree with an edible berry.
Fuchsia procumbens, a trailing shrub that grows along the shoreline is now considered an endangered plant species.

The Hebe Society for Hebes and Other Native Plants of New Zealand.

New Zealand has more than 120 native orchids.   The New Zealand Native Orchid Group On-line issues of the NZNOG Orchid Journal with some photographs.     3-D views

New Zealand Native Plants for Use in Aquariums and Ponds. A tank of native New Zealand plants.

Forest Fungi of New Zealand.   All about mushrooms.
New Zealand Fungal Herbarium.     3-D Fungi

Ecology and eco-system of Piha   The Kaipatiki Ecological Restoration Project Auckland.
The Tararu Sanctuary a co-operatively run forest property in the head of Tararu Valley, surrounded by 140,000 acres of Coromandel State Forest Park.
The Karori Sanctuary project.   The Otari Native Botanic Garden, Wellington.

New Zealand Garden at Ventnor Botanic Gardens, Isle of Wight UK.
New Zealand Gardens at the UC Santa Cruz Arboretum.
The Botanical Garden of the University of California at Berkeley has a number of New Zealand plants in the Australasian collection.

Poisonous Plants in New Zealand.
Threats to Biodiversity - Weeds and Pests   banana passionfruit, wild ginger, old man's beard, pampas grass, wilding pines, tradescantia, wasps, stoats, rats, possums, kaimanawa horses, deer.   Massey University Weed Database.
Integrated pest management.   High toxicity pesticides such as organo-phosphates have not been used for general pest control in the Lady Norwood Begonia House since 1993.

The problem with possums.   Possum Management in New Zealand.
New Zealand has two feral pigs, the Kune-Kune and the Captain Cooker.

Rabbit control and the rabbit calicivirus (RCD).
Hippity hop goes the virus ScienceNews Online.   Calicivirus Sequence Database.   Quick index.
Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease (RCD) Concerns by Dr David O.Matson MD.,Ph.D Center for Pediatric Research, Norfolk, Virginia.

The Calicivirus An interview with Dr Al Smith.
Is rabbit haemorrhagic disease really proven to be species specific? Can it affect human beings?

The New Zealand Mudsnail in the Western USA.