Monitoring Programmes

Motuihe Island / Te Motu-a-Ihenga

Little Spotted Kiwi

Thousands of hours by volunteers since 2003 has seen the primary re-vegetation largely completed.  There are populations of many translocated and self-establishing species that visitors to the island are keen to know about. It is also useful for future management decisions to have some accurate data on the population dynamics of a number of species.

Saddleback (Tieke)

During the first 8 years of the Motuihe Project 40 monitoring stations were set up over the island and our expert ecologist, Matt Baber, designed the protocol for many enthusiastic volunteers to carry out:  5-minute bird counts, invertebrate monitoring, and vegetation monitoring. This important base-line data is available to anyone who may be interested.

Duvaucel Gecko (Hoplodactylus duvaucelii):

Motuihe Trust engaged groups of ecological experts to design appropriate monitoring protocols for annual surveys of Motuihe Island species to provide information on general population trends and to develop a system where the data can be recorded and viewed by multiple users. 

Get involved:

We now have monitoring teams for NZ Dotteral, Little Blue Penguin, Fluttering Shearwater.  Contact Motuihe Trust on email  info@motuihe.org.nz to join our monitoring teams. 

Fluttering Shearwater (from monitoring camera)