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Waterfall at the Brook Sanctuary

Last weekend, while visiting Nelson, we went for a 45 minute walk in the Brook Waimarama Sanctuary. The Sanctuary will extend over c. 715 hectares of a former Water Reserve owned by Nelson City Council.  Most of the site is mature beech forest with occasional huge podocarps but the southern part is diverse broadleaved forest [...]

Read the full article ⍾ Photos 26 February 2009 0 comments

Sanctuary stoat update

The Karori Sanctuary now has details on its website about the capture of the stoat or weasel that was spotted last week —#128: Sanctuary showdown: intruder apprehended: The animal was spotted by a staff member on a routine search earlier today and cornered in a patch of native grasses right next to the main track. [...]

Read the full article ⍾ Real life 26 February 2008 0 comments

It was a weasel

An update to yesterday’s post about the predator at the Sanctuary: A weasel was spotted, cornered and trapped by staff on Friday. [Via : Radio New Zealand News : Latest News : 200802222117 : Predator caught at wildlife sanctuary.] The Sanctuary haven’t updated their news page yet, so there’s no further information.

Read the full article ⍾ Wellington & NZ 23 February 2008 0 comments

Sanctuary on stoat alert

The Karori Sanctuary advised today that they’ve had a security breach, after a sighting of either a stoat or weasel at the Sanctuary. But look at what they did: they installed 180 traps and tracking tunnels. That’s a lot of traps. The first thing we needed to ascertain was what we were up against. So [...]

Read the full article ⍾ Wellington & NZ 21 February 2008 0 comments