Landowners Uniting To Bring Kiwi Back To Their Communities (With Matu Booth)

Landscape-scale conservation projects are a key part of Aotearoa New Zealand’s biodiversity future.

They connect the many localised community efforts, passionate landowners and patches of remnant forest to achieve much wider-reaching conservation outcomes.

When we unite these smaller, seperate activities into catchment-wide, inclusive initiatives, the possibilities are endless…

Enter: ⁠The Forest Bridge Trust⁠ (TFBT).

The vision for TFBT started in 2013 when founders Kevin and Gill Adshead reintroduced kiwi to their family farm in Glorit, Rodney.

They quickly realised that for these flightless birds to thrive, they would require a massive 10,000-hectare predator-controlled habitat.