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Kararehe Kino articles

  1. Editorial: Predator freedom – then what?

    In 1989 a rather strange but charming film, Field of Dreams, was released in which Kevin Costner plays a farmer who builds a baseball diamond in the middle of one of his corn fields. He does this because a mysterious voice tells him, ‘If you build it, he will come’ (‘he’ being an old baseball player...

  2. Biodiversity outcomes in ecosanctuaries

    As New Zealand strives to become predator free, ecological restorations (‘ecosanctuaries’) offer a glimpse into the future for native species if pests are successfully eradicated from the mainland. Over 80 ecosanctuaries, implementing multi-species pest mammal control for ecosystem recovery objectiv...

  3. Solving the kererū puzzle: predator freedom is only part of the answer

    Historically kererū used to occur in flocks so large they could eclipse the sun. However, over the past 200 years their numbers have declined rapidly due to habitat loss and predation by introduced mammals. To what extent are deforestation and predation by introduced mammals still affecting kererū t...

  4. Actions towards the recovery of a gentle giant – the Mahoenui giant wētā

    The arboreal Mahoenui giant wētā once lived in the epiphytes of tall tawa forests of the King Country and Waikato and is considered taonga by the local iwi. Predation pressure from introduced mammals means that the Mahoenui Giant Wētā Scientific Reserve (MGWSR), near Mahoenui in the King Country, no...

  5. Going beyond PF2050: the importance of habitat

    Fenced ecosanctuaries are expensive to establish but allow persistence of birds that are predation-sensitive. Once predators are removed from a fenced ecosanctuary they find it very difficult to reinvade because the specialised fencing keeps them out.

  6. Forest bird movements and sociality

    New Zealand’s original forested landscape has been greatly fragmented since human arrival, so that now only highly mobile birds can move freely across deforested, mainly pastoral, lowland landscapes.

  7. Wandering Waikato kākā

    Kākā are one of the largest, most iconic, and at times noisiest forest birds of New Zealand’s three main islands, yet their movements around the landscape are not well known

  8. Fake clues: using misinformation about odour to protect rare bird species

    Mammalian predators primarily rely on smell as their main cue, enabling them to detect food from a distance. Smell is – usually – a reliable strategy for food location.

  9. Getting it right: where and when is pest control needed to maximise the survival of migratory braided river species?

    Every spring thousands of birds make their inland journey to their breeding grounds, and for the first time it is possible to follow some of them in real time.

  10. Recent publications

    Recent & relevant publications