The lizard garden along the City to Sea Walkway began in 2019. It features native plants such as tī kouka (cabbage trees), wharariki (mountain flax), tauhinu (coastal tree daisy), mingimingi (twiggy coprosma), pohuehue (muehlenbeckia complexa), koromiko, and mānuka. Five years on, the plants are doing well, but one thing has been missing: basking areas! ReptilesContinue reading “What’s Happening in the Lizard Garden?”
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Poppy’s Experience of Penguin Avoidance Training
With nearly a dozen little blue penguin/kororā deaths along Wellington’s coast in recent months due to dog attacks, and a dog walker hearing the call of a male kiwi near the water reservoir at Tawatawa, dog/avian interactions are now a hot topic. It is timely that kororā aversion training had been developed that follows theContinue reading “Poppy’s Experience of Penguin Avoidance Training”
Tawatawa Reserve 