by | Apr 11, 2020 | Uncategorized
Mouse eradication programme on Mana Island – 1989-91 Between 1989 and 1991 there was a major mouse eradication programme on Mana Island. At the time, Mana was the largest island in the world to be cleared of mice. Estimates ranged from 5 to 15 million...
by | Oct 18, 2019 | Uncategorized
Friday was breezy and the trip to Mana was bumpy. Leon met us at the boat and assisted with the transfer of gear to the Lockwood. Nick and Gen are on parental leave, Gen recently having given birth to baby Georgia. Our group of 17 shared space at the Lockwood....
by | Oct 18, 2019 | Uncategorized
Lizards, gannets and storm petrels tasks Friday was quite windy but this died down to light breezes and sunny skies on Saturday. Annemieke, Cherie, Heather and Sarah Jane carried out lizard monitoring at the ngahere, green gecko and speckled skink sites...
by | Oct 16, 2019 | Uncategorized
The trip over was quite bumpy for the group of 19 volunteers with a strong northerly blowing. This didn’t stop around half of the group trekking up to the flax weevil trial site with Will to do 2-minute counts of fauna on the 80 mature flax plants in the trial...
by | Jul 10, 2019 | Uncategorized
A trip to Mana Island was conspiratorially put together to surprise our two young sons in June. We had not been before and it is right on our doorstep – so why not? Plus, we have friends who are overtly biased in their obvious love for all things Mana...
