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conservation: more killing than one might think

October 7th, 2009 by mmaley

Today we spent our time killing bone seed.  It’s a tree like plant with yellow flowers whose seeds are eaten by native birds… but eating bone seed is much like a pigeon eating uncooked rice… once it’s ingested the bird becomes a ticking time bomb with the certain fate of ruptured insides as its digestive track basically explodes. A final meal brought to it by human civilization… On a brighter note it was hard work but great fun.  We spent the day on a severe incline of sand doing our best to keep our footing and fight the needle like [...]

Posted in New Zealand Nature Program

Feeling fine in NZ

October 4th, 2009 by mmaley

So we’ve just returned from counting fur seals  at the cape (nearly 600!) and hiking a nice incline to look out at the Putangiiu Pennacls (where a short bit of the 3rd Lord of the Rings was filmed).  They were stunning! We’re all back at the house now just waiting on Toby and watching some bad TV.  All in good fun though! We new volunteers are anxious to have a night out in wellington tomorrow… promise there will be more interesting stories to come
-Momone

Posted in New Zealand Nature Program

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