GOOD PROGRESS FOR PAPAROA GREAT SPOTS
IT’S NOT JUST GREAT WALK TRAMPERS AND BIKERS COMING TO BLACKBALL, GREAT SPOTTED KIWI ARE ALSO JOINING THE PARTY.
“There weren’t any roroa down here 10 years ago, we didn’t expect them to come to town,” Jo Halley says, referring to the kiwi calls they’re now hearing from Blackball as a decade of predator control and Operation Nest Egg makes an impact. “It’s exciting there are so many so close, also that they are breeding with lots of different family groups.”
Halley has been involved with kiwi conservation with the Paparoa Wildlife Trust for 12 years. In October, she handed over the ‘Kiwi Ranger’
