If the Department of Conservation (Doc) does charge and convict anyone in the suspected poaching, it would be the first time anyone was convicted for breaching the Wildlife Act in the South since 2018.
Four northern royal albatross (toroa) eggs are suspected to have been stolen from the fenced and monitored Otago Peninsula colony in November.
Doc Coastal Otago operations manager Annie Wallace said this week Doc and police had finished reviewing all available security camera footage.
Both agencies continued to investigate the missing eggs, she said.
"We can’t provide any further details at this stage of the investigation."
However, she continued to appeal to anyone with information that could help to find out what happened to the albatross eggs to call Doc or the police.
Ms Wallace previously said she suspected the apparent poaching had been very well planned and she believed there was a high chance the case would remain unsolved.
The last time someone was convicted of breaching the Wildlife Act in the South the case was much more straight forward, it would appear.
A summary of facts, provided by Doc shows the defendant, a farm worker, was convicted and fined $2500 by Invercargill District Court in January 2018 for shooting and killing a rare Australasian crested grebe (kamana) at Frasers Beach on the foreshore of Lake Manapouri where nesting structures had been built to help the birds at risk of extinction.
Police were called and the man admitted what he had done, saying he thought the bird was a duck.
There have been four convictions for breaching the Wildlife Act in New Zealand since then, official information provided by Doc shows.
One prosecution was pending in the northern region of the South Island at present, it said.
