Lunchtime Learnings: Kiwi Chick Survival Research

Come along to DOC and hear about kiwi chick survival research in this Conservation week ‘lunchtime learnings’ special. Presented by DOC Ranger Nicole Sutton at the DOC visitor centre.

Nicole Sutton is currently a Jobs for Nature Delivery Manager here in Queenstown, in the early 2000’s she was a kiwi Ranger in Tongariro Forest Kiwi Sanctuary in the Central North Island. Nicole was in amongst research that would lead to a largescale predator control tool - that targeted not just possums but rats, and via secondary poisoning, stoats. Most importantly, that leads to increased kiwi chick survival!

In this lunchtime learning session we’re going to step back to a time when it all began, to a time when scientists were asking “can aerial 1080 be used as a tool to control rat numbers to benefit native species?”, and “Does the secondary poisoning of stoats from an aerial 1080 operation lead to an increase in kiwi chick survival?”.

This event is part of Conservation Week 2022.