The Call of the Kōkako | Ngāti Tama Saves Native Bird Species | Tiaki Te Mauri O Parininihi Trust
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- čas přidán 23. 04. 2021
- **Correction - There are currently 7 pairs of kōkako currently living in the Parininihi forest, and many more singles**
Photo Credits:
Jozef Polec, Amanda Rogers, Kay Milton
Welcome to "The Change Makers" - a weekly video series.
In this series our Change Makers share their stories, their thoughts, their ambitions and their actions to leave the earth a better place - to be a Good Ancestor to future generations.
Our planet is experiencing catastrophic environmental harm and it requires us to Think Long Term, beyond our lifetimes, to evaluate our choices and to take actions to ensure a sustainable and healthy future for all.
The stories of those leading the change - The Change Makers - those thinking and acting with long term vision, are inspirational.
Inspired, we can ask ourselves, “what can we do to be Better Ancestors?”
This week, Better Ancestors visits with Conrad O’Carroll and Tiaki Te Mauri O Parininihi Trust.
Parininihi includes 2,000 hectares of coastal and inland forest, in Taranaki, on the West Coast of Aotearoa / New Zealand.
Ngāti Tama, are tangata whenua and kaitiaki / the guardians of Parininihi. These lands hold great cultural, historic and spiritual significance to Ngāti Tama who strive to maintain the health of Parininihi.
Kōkako (Callaeas wilsoni) are of the genus Callaeidae, Wattle Birds, and very distant relatives of the crow. They were previously widespread in Aotearoa / New Zealand however populations have been decimated by the predations of mammalian invasive species such as possums, stoats, cats and rats, and their range has contracted significantly. With their extraordinary haunting song, and obscure evolutionary relationships to other birds they evoke the forests of ancient Aotearoa / New Zealand.
Conrad O’Carroll has committed his life’s work to caring for this forest; - managing introduced predators and teaching the next generation of kaitiaki. Conrad, and people like him, throughout Aotearoa are rescuing taonga species including kōkako from the precipice of extinction.
To learn more visit www.parininihi.co.nz
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Episode 17 premieres next week, Sunday 2nd May 2021.
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the people working so hard to keep these species alive are heroes!
How wonderful to hear that these beautiful birds are now on the way back. Amazing song 💖
I appreciate all the people doing this work ...
Love sounds
Well done to All Concerned I'm from Taranaki but living in Perth these days I loved to hear there calls hunting around Bennydale 🕊
All the very best.
I saw one of these during a dawn walk at Tawharanui Regional Park in North Auckland. What a beautiful melodic plaintive song it has.
Amazing species it would be great to see them recover and get through this
🔔
I can see why they want that bird species back. Such a breathtaking coastline.
Yes Richie, very special and such inspiring work being undertaken at Parininihi. Thank you for your comments.
Would love to to come and listen grow an help build this species
same
The kokako are calling me and others. I think it calls to me in the early Mangaweka dawn chorus. Beautiful!
Any call of kauai nukupuu?
🙏 more and more people spending time enthasium or spending most of earned at life to protecting NZ nature....
Everyone living or visited Aotearoa should thinking back what this great land of long cloud was giving.
Only if vistited some times we must end of live thinking back and giving some back if not able at living...
Predator free and hose animals under controll would be saving most of birdlife.... also foresting not on quickly money or right farming NZ know to do!
European are fighting against destruction, they feel since long what was made wrong...
Please stop having cats.... that is one major contribution that's easy, as soon as you lose your current one (if you have a current one) please consider a dog instead!.
Predator free 2050!