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It is thought that pukeko first arrived in Aotearoa during the Pliocene (3-5 million years ago).  Finding a land with abundant food and no mammalian

Applications for the 2018 Abel Tasman Youth Ambassadors are now open. The Abel Tasman Youth Ambassadors (ATYA) programme gives students from all of the Adopt

In early September I was involved with the work of Abel Tasman Birdsong Trust in transferring 40 saddleback from Motuara Island to Adele.  This work is likely to

Ever since he heard the rare mycoheterotrophic orchid Danhatchia (Yoania) australis, grew in the South Island under nikau at Kaihoka Lakes in Golden Bay and

Motueka High School students are the first students to earn NCEA credits as part of their involvement in a pilot education programme in the Abel

Two species of kākāriki or parakeet were once very common on mainland New Zealand. In fact they were so common in the Nelson and Golden Bay

Twelve kākāriki or yellow-crowned parakeet released into the Abel Tasman National Park today are the first captive raised kākāriki to ever be released onto the

Eleven kākāriki or yellow-crowned parakeet will today begin their journey from the Marlborough Sounds to a new life in the Abel Tasman National Park. The

I must admit that the prompt for this posting came from seeing the photo from Don Ravine. Given that the rifleman is the smallest bird

Four schools from the Nelson/Tasman area are to adopt and improve sections of the Abel Tasman National Park as part of a unique new education

To answer that first question: they must have been once, given the sub-fossil remains from caves within or at least very close to the park.

For many people visiting Abel Tasman National Park, their encounters with weka are memorable. This large flightless rail appears fearless, approaching closely yet quick to