New Zealand Volunteering News

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Since our last Blog Lee has finished his work with the RSPB, we have paid for the trip in full, got our tickets, carried on learning spanish and managed to sort possibly a months conservation volunteering in New Zealand!

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The first lot of volunteering is in the Hauna Regional Park, south east of Auckland. Here we will be helping to survey for the Kokako, one of new Zealands endangered and endemic birds, the Park is the only native Kokako population in the Auckland area. We are also hoping to help with some surveys for Blue Penguins.
We hope to do about three weeks volunteering here from around the 15th of January 2007.

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Second is one week's volunteering on an island called Tiritiri Matangi, just off Auckland in the North Island. The island is one of New Zealands most important conservation projects, having been reforested by volunteers and rare, native birds successfully reintroduced including saddleback, takahe, parakeet, North Island robin, kokako, whitehead, little spotted kiwi, stitchbird and brown teal. We will be working with conservation officers on various tasks to maintain the sanctaury and are going to be there from the 11th February to the 17th February 2007.

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Go to http://www.tiritirimatangi.org.nz/ for more detailed information on Tiritiri Matangi.

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The plan is then to spend the rest of our time in New Zealand exploring South Island, including going whale watching in Kaikora, visiting Milford Sound and Fox Glaciar.