Core populations of our most critical endangered species such as kakī (black stilt), takahē, kākāpō, tūturuatu (shore plover) and kākāriki karaka will be vaccinated. However, if this virus behaves as ...
Soon after, an additional 10 birds were released. To everyone’s joy, the takahē not only adjusted to their new habitat but also began reproducing. There are now around 500 takahē in New Zealand, and ...
That’s what he told PEOPLE with a smile as he took a break from helping build Habitat for Humanity houses in Nashville, Tenn. For 36 years, he and wife Rosalynn Carter have led an annual build ...
For centuries takahē have only been in the Murchison Mountains and offshore islands ... The assumption was that they would turn up elsewhere, in the thousands of hectares of suitable habitat, but in ...
Have you ever seen a kekeno New Zealand fur seal basking on a rock or a flock of kākā flying overhead? You can find these and more in the ‘natural capital’ of Aotearoa New Zealand ...
Thought to have disappeared many years ago, the Takahē, a sizeable flightless bird, has reemerged in the woodlands of New Zealand’s South Island. Their unexpected return on the alpine terrain is a ...
In 2019, former President Jimmy Carter showed up at a Habitat for Humanity site in Nashville with a smile — and a black eye. One day earlier, Carter, then 95, had fallen and needed 14 stitches, but he ...
Pressure from introduced predators such as cats, ferrets, and rats, brought by European settlers as animal companions, decimated the takahē populations even more. Meanwhile, introduced species such as ...
After Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter linked themselves to Habitat for Humanity, it grew and built homes for millions. Now, their cause is a national crisis. By Jack Healy Former President Jimmy Carter ...
When Jimmy Carter swung a hammer for Habitat for Humanity, it wasn't just a photo-op. Carter, the 39th president of the United States and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, died on Sunday at the age ...
But one diehard pursuit holds no inherent contradiction: Carter’s decades-long dedication to Habitat for Humanity, the Georgia-based homebuilding charity for which he (and his wife, Rosalynn ...