Mohua Charitable Trust

03/08/2020

Happy Birthday to us!!! We are 10 years young!!!

06/03/2020

The Coal Island seabird project has officially begun!
The Mohua Charitable Trust in partnership with the Coal Island Trust (South West New Zealand Endangered Species Trust) and sponsors: DoC Community Fund, ANZ Staff Foundation and Fiordland Helicopters have made this exciting project happen.
The aim is to attract seabirds which would have nested on the island pre rats and stoats with specially designed acoustic call gear.
The heavy gear was flown into position by Heli My Way pilot Dale Green with the help of Pete Young from the Coal Island Trust last week. A team of volunteers then set them up.
The acoustic call gear was designed and constructed by the DOC electronics team, and the calls of titi/mutton birds and korure/mottled petrels loaded onto the machines by seabird expert from Te Papa, Colin Miskelly.
Now all we need to do is wait....

20/02/2020

Guess what? We are gearing up to set up special acoustic equipment on Coal Island in Preservation Inlet, Fiordland to attract several species of special seabirds to once again breed on the island. This project is a great example of two trusts working together: the South-West New Zealand Endangered Species Trust (otherwise known as Coal Island Trust) and the Mohua Charitable Trust...together with funding support from the Department of Conservation's Community Fund and the ANZ Staff Foundation. Will keep you posted....

03/02/2020

Bottoms up, it's February already! Here's a great photo from the talented Glenda Rees.
2020 is shaping up to be an exciting year for the Mohua Charitable Trust. We have several upcoming projects - two are working with the Coal Island Trust, the ANZ Staff Foundation and the Department of Conservation restoring seabirds and saddlebacks to Coal Island Preservation Inlet, Fiordland. There will also be a translocation or two later in the year to directly benefit mohua conservation. We will keep you in the loop!

25/12/2019

Merry Christmas to you all and a happy 2020. There are many exciting projects coming up for mohua and other fauna in 2020 so watch this space....

05/11/2019

VOTE MOHUA FOR BIRD OF THE YEAR!!!!!!
Votes close on the 10th Nov!

23/10/2019

Votes for the Bird of the Year 2019 open on the 28th October! If you were born in the South Island or now live in the South Island vote for a true South Islander - the bright, beautiful Mohua!

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07/10/2019

October is a busy month for mohua, they are pairing up and setting up territories ready to lay eggs in late October/early November.
Here is a photo by Mike Ashbee

25/09/2019

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Makarora Valley trapping project consists of 485 rat, stoat and possum traps on 10 traplines and two close-spaced grids in the Makarora and Blue valleys.

29/08/2019

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Buy a t-shirt from tumble w**d tees and $5 will go to the Mohua Charitable Trust to help save mohua populations.
They would make great Christmas presents! Buy one today and you'll be supporting an upcoming mohua translocation!

28/08/2019

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Buy a t-shirt from tumble w**d tees and $5 will go to the Mohua Charitable Trust to protect mohua.

28/08/2019

Mohua need you!
Please use the donate button on our page to help save the mohua. Donations help toward translocating mohua to islands and mainlands to safeguard or boost their populations. It's easy it only takes a push of the button.