Wild Ways

A contest for the title of the tallest has taken place at the Orokonui Ecosanctuary, writes general manager Chris Baillie.

A day in the life of an Orokonui Ecosanctuary ranger is not all communing with exotic fauna, Kelly Gough tells us.

Native vegetation and plant species at Orokonui Ecosanctuary are worth valuing in their own right, as Kelvin Lloyd explains.

New Zealand's elusive fernbird can be found flitting about the Orokonui Ecosanctuary, writes Paul Sorrell.

In New Zealand, the weasel population is thinly spread, with trapping generally yielding a ratio of stoats to weasels of 20 to one. But there are weasel hotspots. The ecosanctuary boundary is one of those. Michael Fay sets the traps.

The relationship between humans and birds is about to get a whole lot closer at Orokonui Ecosanctuary, Karin Ludwig reports.

It's a fine line between success and failure for the Orokonui Ecosanctuary. The fine line is a fence, Elton Smith reports.

Orokonui Ecosanctuary is not just about birds. Moths and butterflies also thrive in the absence of hungry mammals, writes Sofie Welvaert.

The forest parrots are the entertainers of Orokonui Ecosanctuary but, as Sue Hensley writes, their survival is a serious business.

In the first of a regular monthly column looking at life in the Orokonui Ecosanctuary, Neville Peat talks to Valerie Fay about searching for kiwi.