16 Jul 2025

Protecting the Pukunui (the Southern NZ Dotterel)

From Afternoons, 1:25 pm on 16 July 2025

Rakiura / Stuart Island is home to 105 Pukunui. It's the only place in the world they can be found

Doc class them as 'Threatened - Nationally Critical'. Just one step away from extinction.

And according to Zero Invasive Predators' Operations director Duncan Kay, without some serious intervention, they could be gone in a matter of years. 

Duncan Kay is standing in front of some trees. it is a closeup head and shoulders shot.

Photo: Rory Harnden