We hear from senior seabird ranger, Georgia about the highs, the lows, and the amazing wins of the 2024 seabird breeding season, which is lining up as our most successful one yet.

Anna Whitehead decided to become a ‘Burrow Buddy’ this year. She shares the ups and downs of her experience and what being a Burrow Buddy is all about.

It’s hard to imagine how far along this Karioi restoration journey we’d be without the extraordinary support of the landowners who’ve helped us every step of the way. 

This year, the Karioi Project has stepped up its monitoring efforts, using a variety of innovative techniques to better understand and protect the regenerating biodiversity of Karioi and its surrounding landscape.

We are beyond thrilled to share the incredible impact of your generosity during the Power Our Rangers! crowdfunding campaign in August. In just 18 days, 198 donors came together to raise an astounding $27,370!

We challenged September’s bait op volunteers to take photos while out on Karioi. Here are some of the best photos submitted.

BOOM!
And we have launched!

Head to Power Our Rangers! to donate and share our Givealittle campaign!

We are very excited to share the launch of our Give a Little 2024 Campaign. This campaign is for our awesome rangers who do the mahi day in, day out - trapping, baiting, track cutting, monitoring and so much more!

Summer Vaughan embodies the essence of resilience and determination, nurtured by her upbringing on the farm. Passionate about conservation and predator control, a nature lover and tree hugger at heart, Summer is resourceful and always up for new challenges. Summer's unwavering spirit shines bright and has led her to an internship with the Karioi Project, undertaking part-time ranger tasks.

Waitī is a whetū in the Matariki cluster. It is the star connected to freshwater: springs, streams, rivers, lakes, wetlands and the plants and animals that live in freshwater. This year, every Year 7 and 8 student at Raglan Area School had the chance to join a 2-day outdoor education experience exploring local streams with the Karioi Project team.

Hope - and a great community - has led us to where we are today. Kristel reflects on leaders of the past and those of the future.

Malibu Hamilton was the TWoK convenor who helped establish the Karioi Project’s goals and vision for a restored maunga together with about a dozen volunteers in 2009. It means a lot to us to be able to tell this story about a person who has meant so much to so many!

Karioi is packed with a diverse range of these fascinating organisms, from beautiful specimens to some slightly less attractive ones…

The Karioi Project is concerned about the Fast Track Approvals bill. We ask you to consider your thoughts and position on this bill and the potential impact it may have on our taiao.

This year is particularly exciting because it marks an important milestone reached, as the 50th chick in six years leaves the burrow.

It’s thanks to volunteers like Christine, Lenny and many others that the Karioi Project can operate. There are more than a hundred regular volunteers, checking over 2500 traps every fortnight.

In the spirit of the festive season, the Karioi Project team are appealing to locals to choose the Karioi Project as a worthwhile cause to support.

The Karioi Project completed its second Raglan-wide survey for pekapeka-tou-roa / the long-tailed bat. Highly endangered, they are classed one level below extinct and have the same threatened status as the kākāpō!

Our team of rangers is immersed in Karioi’s bush day most days, and here we learn a bit more about what they are seeing out there this October.

This one is a bit of a "nature diary" in which you can find out what’s happening out on the local maunga - kind of like a "current events" or even a gossip column, but for the birds and the trees!