Voting is OPEN! Bird of the Year 2025: The Brook Waimārama Sanctuary
🟠🌿✨ Voting is OPEN! ✨🌿🟠
It’s here — Bird of the Year 2025 has begun! We’re backing the kākāriki karaka (orange-fronted parakeet), one of Aotearoa’s most precious taonga species.
Once found across the motu, kākāriki karaka now survive only in small, fragile populations. They are taonga because they carry the mauri (life force) of our beech forests — feeding on seeds, flowers, and insects, and spreading the ngahere’s abundance as they move. Their survival is woven into the health of the forest itself.
Less than a few hundred remain in the wild, but thanks to translocations, captive breeding, and predator-free sanctuaries like ours, there is hope.
💚 Cast your vote for the kākāriki karaka — the rarest parakeet with the biggest fight.
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Together, we can give this taonga a future.
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