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December 10, 2025 | Paakiwaha
Professor Jacqueline Beggs | Kākāpō are breeding – listen out!
Scientists working on the recovery of New Zealand’s critically endangered kākāpō believe 2025 may mark the biggest breeding season on record – […]
March 13, 2026
May 5, 2025 | Paakiwaha
Tāne Davis | Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu Representative on the Kākāpō Recovery Group
Its a booming good summer for male kākāpō on the North Island mainland Kākāpō at Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari have completed their first season of booming – something that has not been heard on the North Island of mainland Aotearoa for more than a century.
November 28, 2023 | News
Wayward kākāpō force Maungatautari sanctuary rethink
Some kākāpō are spending too much time hanging around the fence at Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari, leading to the Department of Conservation shifting them elsewhere while new monitoring methods are investigated.
October 30, 2023 | News
Voting for Bird of the Century opens today, with kākāpō back on ballot.
Voting for Forest & Bird's "Bird of the Century" opens from this morning for the next two weeks.
- Radio Waatea is Auckland's only Māori radio station that provides an extensive bi-lingual broadcast to its listeners. Based at Nga Whare Waatea marae in Mangere, it is located in the middle of the biggest Māori population in Aotearoa.
