![]() So it takes an hour to learn to check traps, right. You might have to work your way up to that a little bit, but there are lots of ways that people can get involved straight off the bat. I think learning to handle kiwi or other native species is something that you probably shouldn't expect to jump straight into. It does take quite a lot of training and experience to learn to handle kiwi. In regards to volunteering, so many people that I talk to start that way or look on the DOC website and there are lots of opportunities and ways for listeners to volunteer. But really it was because I was fortunate to be in a position that I could do it for quite a long time. So yeah, it was pretty much straight off the bat I got to do that. But yeah, that's where I cut my teeth in conservation and got some really good skills and got to know some good people and yeah. But, but yeah, because I was able to commit for a year, it takes a while to sort of skill up to become a kiwi ranger. So you know, there was mowing lawns and checking traps and things like that as well. So the first thing you did was work with kiwi? And so a volunteer opportunity to go and work as a kiwi ranger at Moehau Kiwi Sanctuary up in the top of the Coromandel Peninsula. So I managed to get on this scheme and hopped on the DOC website looking for opportunities. I'd heard a little bit about some of the conservation work there and you know, it’s really famous as a place with good opportunities to do fun outdoor stuff, which is what I wanted to do. And I sort of had an inkling that it would be cool to go to New Zealand. So many moons ago, more than I care to admit, I was studying a zoology degree back in Scotland and they had a work placement program where you could go and find a work placement year. And how did you get to become a Fiordland Kiwi ranger? I love Edinburgh, my favourite city in the world. I'm not hearing the kiwi vowels that I'm used to. ![]() But basically I'm sort of a point of contact and admin chap for the predator control and species monitoring that we do in those kind of special places in Northern Fiordland.Īnd what I'm doing at the moment is planning an aerial 1080 operation for the Hollyford.įantastic. So it's a little bit less easily defined than that when I was running the kiwi project. I am what we call Project Lead for a couple of valleys in northern Fiordland, the Hollyford and the Cleddau. And what's your job now? What did you move on to? So I work with him in that I sit about a meter away and we chat about the project a bit and so on, but I haven't sort of directly worked with him heaps. Well, he replaced me as manager of the Shy Lake Project. Tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou katoa He kaimahi ahau mō Te Papa Atawhai ki Te Anau ![]() Kia ora Tim, thanks very much for coming on. It is not an easy job and it's not always as fun as it sounds, but Tim's work stories are second to none, and the wins for him and his team will bring a tear to your eye. Tim has a wealth of experience handling rare species, navigating remote Fiordland terrain and managing endangered species survival. Today on the DOC Sounds of Science podcast, we have star of the Fiordland Kiwi Diaries, and conservation expert Tim Raemaekers. He kōnae ipurangi tēnei, e pā ana ki ngā Sounds of Science.Įvery episode we talk about work being done behind the scenes by DOC’s technical experts, scientists, rangers and the experts in between. Kia ora! I'm Erica Wilkinson and this is the DOC Sounds of Science podcast.
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