

The braided streams of the Dart (left) and Rees Rivers as they spill out of the mountains of Mt Aspiring National Park and into Lake Wakatipu. The river delta provides refuge for some of New Zealand’s rarest birds. Photo: Vladka Kennett : Bringing back the birds
The braided streams of the Dart (left) and Rees Rivers as they spill out of the mountains of Mt Aspiring National Park and into Lake Wakatipu. The river delta provides refuge for some of New Zealand’s rarest birds. Photo: Vladka Kennett : Bringing back the birds


Black stilt. Photo: Department of Conservation : Bringing back the birds
Black stilt. Photo: Department of Conservation : Bringing back the birds


The lower Routeburn Valley. Photo: RDWT : Bringing back the birds
The lower Routeburn Valley. Photo: RDWT : Bringing back the birds


A wrybill. Photo: Andrew Walmsley Photography : Bringing back the birds
A wrybill. Photo: Andrew Walmsley Photography : Bringing back the birds


Black-billed gulls. Photo: Andrew Walmsley Photography : Bringing back the birds
Black-billed gulls. Photo: Andrew Walmsley Photography : Bringing back the birds
Bringing back the birds
A trust set up in 2013 to "bring back the birdsong" to the Routeburn and Dart Valleys is hatching a plan to expand its predator control efforts...
