WELCOME to the Paparoa Wildlife Trust
The Paparoa Wildlife Trust (PWT) is a recently established conservation initiative powering ahead in its effort to establish and maintain effective recovery programmes for great spotted kiwi/roroa (Apteryx haastii) and blue duck/whio (Hymenolaimus malacorhynchos) in the South Paparoa Range, north of Greymouth on the West Coast
of the South Island.
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To date, our main focus has been the Paparoa Roroa Project. We believe this project is making significant progress in contributing to knowledge of Roroa behaviour and ecology and in time should contribute markedly to its recovery in the Paparoa’s. We are dedicated and committed to securing a strong roroa presence in an area where kiwi are faced with considerable threat through habitat destruction and stoat predation.
- Survey Work
- Monitoring Adults
- Operation Nest Egg
- Crèche du Bois Gentil*
*meaning Friendly Forest Crèche in French
A smaller but no less important project is the blue duck / whio protection project where community volunteers maintain 23 km of predator trap lines in two valleys, the Blackball and the Moonlight.
- Trapping with Volunteers
- Population Surveys
- Operation Nest Egg
Take a look at our photo gallery. The photo gallery has 3 albums - Paparoa Range, Paparoa Wildlife Trust in Action, Great Spotted Kiwi / Roroa gallery (with audio: GSK calls)