A safe haven for native animals

Our patients recover at our centre after treatment at Wildbase Hospital, they change regularly as they recover and are released back into the wild.

Our resident animals are with us all the time so there is always something to see.

Our patients

Our resident animals

Red-Crowned Kākāriki
Juvenile Tuatara
Whio (Blue Duck)
Pāteke (Brown Teal)
Kererū (New Zealand Wood Pigeon)
Korimako (Bellbird)
Kākā (Bush Parrot)
Tuatara

Past patients

Ruru Masterton
Kāhu Hiwinui
Tarāpuka Ashhurst
Kākā Thorndon
Kererū Marton
Kererū Palmerston North
Kererū PN Ngahere
Ruru Hokowhitu
Tūī Whanganui
Kāka Riversdale

Tuatara

Tuatara

E toru ngā tuatara e noho ana ki te puni manu ara hīkoi.

Nō Takapourewa i te raki o Te Waipounamu, he mea takoha mai e Ngāti Koata hei tiaki mā mātou i konei.

Kei a Ngāti Koata ki Takapourewa te mana kaitiaki i a Tuatara, otirā he kaitiaki hoki a Tuatara i a Ngāti Koata.

Kei Takapourewa te taupori tuatara nui rawa atu o te ao. Ehara i te whakataunga māmā kia nukua he tuatara ki wāhi kē, ina e mōhio ana a Ngāti Koata e kore ngā uri o aua tuatara e whakahokia ki tō rātou ipukarea.

‘E koa ana a Ngāti Koata kia noho mai ngā tuatara puiaki nei ki Te Puni Whakahaumanu o Wildbase, hei whakamiharo, hei whakamaioha mā te tini.’

I ōu wāhi katoa, kei reira hoki ahau.

Ina toro mai koe i te takurua e moe hōtoke ana a Tuatara.

 

 

A TUATARA NOHO PŪMAU KI KONEI

BIG BOY

He nui, he purotu te tuatara taurawhi noho pūmau ki konei, koia i tapaina ai ko Big boy. Kitekitea ai ia e pāinaina ana i tana tino toka, e puta atu ana rānei i te tūrua o ngā uwha i ngā marama mahana.

Nō te Haratua 1985 i whānau mai ai a Big boy i Te Papa Kararehe o Tāmakimakaurau, nō reira ko ia te kirinoho kaumātua rawa atu o konei. Nā tōna āhua hūmārie i maha ai ōna kāinga i roto i ngā tau, nō te tau 2018 ka hūnukuhia mai ki konei.

I takohatia mai a Big boy me ōna hoa uwha, e ō rātou kaitiaki, e Ngāti Koata. I mua i tērā, i te puni o Te Tarahiti Kararehe Mohoao o Isaac rātou e noho ana, i Ōtautahi.

He torutoru noa iho ngā wā ka puta a Big boy i tōna tūrua me ōna anaroa i ngā marama mātaotao. Hāunga ngā rangi mahana ka hunahuna ia ki reira.

TOA

He tino hunahuna a Toa, tētahi o ā mātou tuatara uwha, me uaua kē ka kitea i tawhiti o te tomokanga o tōna tūrua i te taha o te wairere.

Ka paopao mai a Toa i Te Whare Pupuri Taonga o Murihiku i te Paengawhāwhā 1997. Ka hūnukuhia ki Te Papa o Orana i Ōtautahi i te 2002. Kātahi ia ka tonoa ki te puni o Te Tarahiti Kararehe Mohoao o Isaac, ka honohono atu ki te pori tuatara o reira.

I muri i tana whakamāunu he paku pīngao te tae o tōna kiri, ā, he rite anō tōna āhua ki ērā atu o ngā tuatara uwha noho pūmau ki konei.

Ko Toa te tuatahi o ā mātou tuatara kia whakanōhia ki te puni manu ara hīkoi, ā, he tere whakakāinga ia ki raro i te kōporo i te taha o te wairere.

DAZZA

Ko Dazza tētahi o ngā tuatara uwha, ka kitekitea e noho ana ki tana toka ki rāwāhi o te wāhanga o te puni manu ara hīkoi e nōhia ana e ngā tuatara. Ka mātakitaki ia i te hunga toro mai me ngā manu.

Ka paopao mai a Dazza i te taha i a Toa, i Te Whare Pupuri Taonga o Murihiku i te Paengawhāwhā 1997. Rāua tahi ka hūnukuhia ki Te Papa o Orana, kātahi ki te puni o Te Tarahiti Kararehe Mohoao o Isaac. I reira ka tūtaki atu ki a Big boy rāua ko Beads (tā mātou tuatara uwha tuatoru).

I mua rā, ka kutia ngā matiwae o ngā punua tuatara, ā, ko te āhua o te kuti hei tautuhi i a rātou. Kua mutu tērā tikanga ināianei, i ēnei rā, mā te whakamau mōtete moroiti ki ō rātou tinana e tautuhitia ai.

Nō tana taenga mai ki konei i te 2018 e hapū ana ia, ā, ko ia pea te māmā o tētahi o ngā punua tuatara o konei, o ngā punua tuatara tokorua rānei.

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