Kia Ora, it’s Anna here, one of the Department of Conservation ambassadors in Port Waikato. We’ve just had our annual Shorebird Day at the Port and it has been a really fun and engaging community event. We had an art stall where people could paint their own wooden...
Shelley and I have been in Port Waikato for around 5 weeks now and we are really enjoying our time here. In this blog post I’m going to share with you a day in the life of a DOC dotterel ranger. After waking up in our tent, we make breakfast and get ready for the day....
When we arrived in Port Waikato, we were told all about the predators of and the dangers humans pose to the shorebirds we would be protecting, however, nobody mentioned both ourselves (in our tent) and our birds would encounter and have to survive two big storms as...
When I was offered this ambassadorship, the first thing I did after a little happy dance at work, was look up where exactly Port Waikato is. Having grown up in Auckland and having done a fair bit of exploring in this beautiful country, I was shocked to find it was...
Shelley and I arrived in Port Waikato on a busy and exciting day for the small community: The annual Christmas Parade. Upon arriving we were handed paint brushes and blue paint and we got stuck into painting our float. For our ambassadorship we are working with Port...
