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RNZ News
02-06-2025
- Science
- RNZ News
The Chatham Island tui translocation
One from the archives! By the 1990s Chatham Island tūī had all but disappeared from the main island. Slightly different to their mainland counterparts these songbirds had survived on nearby Pitt and Rangatira islands. So a local conservation group decided to try bring them back. In this episode from 2010 Alison Ballance joins the ‘tūī team’ tasked with moving 40 birds from Rangatira island back to the main island. To embed this content on your own webpage, cut and paste the following: See terms of use.
CBC
13-05-2025
- General
- CBC
Conservation group raises concerns about Pennask wind farm proposal
A conservation group is raising concerns about a large-scale wind farm project near Kelowna, that they say, could threaten a rainbow trout population used for stocking B.C. lakes. As Sohrab Sandhu reports, it's one of nine renewable energy projects exempted from the province's standard environmental assessment process.
