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class="content__text" Eighteen juvenile tūturuatu/tchūriwat’/shore plover were translocated to Portland/Waikawa Island last month, where they joined around 80 other birds in the largest population of the species outside of the Chatham Islands. This translocation is part of our ongoing efforts to preserve this critically threatened species and we couldn'nt have done it by ourselves. A big thank you to the landowners Tawapata South Incorporated, New Zealand Nature Fund, who helped with funding, the Isaac Conservation and Wildlife Trust for raising the chicks in Christchurch and Air New Zealand for flying the birds to Hawke's Bay There are only around 250 tūturuatu/tchūriwat’/shore plover in the world and they have the highest possible threat ranking of Threatened: Nationally Critical. So, there survival depends on captive breeding programmes with translocations to predator-free islands that has secure island biosecurity. Read more here: https://bit.ly/3YeMf2z 📷: Tūturuatu/tchūriwat’/shore plover birds in pre-release aviary - Rose Collen

February 13, 2023