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Bank of New Zealand Save the Kiwi Trust

The Bank of New Zealand Save the Kiwi Trust is on a mission...
“to enable kiwi to flourish in its natural habitat, securing the future of our national icon for generations to come.”

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A health check on a kiwi.


To help achieve this mission, the Trust has set itself six challenging aims.  It seeks to:

Provide inspiration, guidance and tools to enable New Zealand communities to protect and enhance local and regional populations of kiwi.

Be recognised as kiwi experts in the areas of bird management, predator control, breeding, and ecosystem management.

Maintain a world class level and robust knowledge base for kiwi recovery through research into kiwi and kiwi-related issues.

Be an internationally recognised conservation success story.

Be the flagship of conservation and environmental sponsorship in New Zealand.

Be a voice for kiwi.

How will the Bank of New Zealand Save the Kiwi Trust do this?

kiwi probing Through providing funds to support a mix of active management and research, and by working to raise awareness of New Zealanders to the plight of the kiwi.  To that end, the Bank of New Zealand Save the Kiwi Trust invests in:

As well, it is directly responsible for:

Monster Egg
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From such a large egg emerges a  fully-feathered independent chick 
Rogan Colbourne
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Rogan, a DOC kiwi researcher, spends a lot of time in remote locations, searching for kiwi
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