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Fighting for the underbird – helping out on the Tin Range, Rakiura

Date: 4 - 12 November 2024.
Trip type: Volunteer conservation.
Location: Tin Range, Rakiura.
Author: Sarah Fisher.
Trampers: Sarah.

The fight for the underbird – helping out on the Tin Range, Rakiura A week on the Tin Range Stewart Island helping the Department of Conservation rangers with predator control to protect one of NZ’s most endangered birds the southern dotterel. If you want to save a species or habitat it’s a fight for evermore. You can … Read more

Tin Range: Disappointment and Delight

Date: Christmas break 2018/2019.
Trip type: Private.
Location: Tin Range, Stewart Island.
Author: Beccy D.
Trampers: Gareth and Beccy.

This was not a WTMC trip but I thought the notes might be generally helpful to other WTMC members. We researched this trip thoroughly as the first two days do not have any maintained tracks. It is some of the most remote tramping you can do in New Zealand, and, whilst not all that high, … Read more