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John Stewart – Tiri
Environment – A tale of two gulls
Most of us living on the Coast will see gulls every day and probably not think much of it. It seems that these common, large...
Environment – Tiritiri Matangi helps hihi back to life
Back in May, Hibiscus Matters reported on a successful translocation of hihi/stitchbirds from Tiritiri Matangi to Shakespear Regional Park. This was the third translocation of...
Tiritiri Matangi – Hihi find new home
As a relatively long-established reserve, Tiritiri Matangi now has a wide range of native plants and animals, some of which have been translocated from other...
Environment – Birds shaking off their baby feathers
It’s been a very dry start to 2025, and the impacts can be seen on some of the island’s trees which are wilting badly. Despite...
Environment – Warm welcome for little penguin families
Tiritiri Matangi is home to some hundreds of nesting kororā, little penguins. They have been living on the island for decades, perhaps much longer. On...
Environment – Changes are a coming
Climate change is coming and maybe faster than you think. The predicted changes could have big impacts on the future biodiversity on islands like Tiritiri...
Environment – Dawn as it used to be
In his journal entry for 17 January, 1770, botanist Joseph Banks wrote about the dawn chorus at Tōtaranui (Queen Charlotte sound): “This morn I was...
Environment – Count uncovers ups and downs
‘Tick-tick, tick-tick, tick-tick’. Did you hear that? What was it? Well, it was one of two possibilities. If it sounded like two stones being tapped...
Environment – Tiri a treasure still in the making
Visitors’ first impressions after landing on Tiritiri Matangi Island are likely to be of lush bush of mainly native trees forming a closed canopy over...
