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Like most New Zealanders, Air New Zealand is proud of our natural environment. Were even in awe of it. We should probably also spend less time talking about it and more time actually wandering through it.

In that spirit, we joined forces with the Departmentof Conservation to protect and preserve some ofour countrys most inspiring natural locations.Were helping to enhance biodiversity on New Zealands Great Walks. Theyre places every Kiwi should experience. Go explore them at airnz.co.nz/greatwalks then get out and walk.

Image: Kepler Track.

The Air New Zealand Great Walks Biodiversity Project has already initiated intensive pest control and species management work at sites along four of the nine Great Walk tracks Rakiura, Milford, Routeburn and Lake Waikaremoana.

This project will help to put takah back on the Milford Track, kkako around Lake Waikaremoana, and restore populations of other native birds like kiwi, whio, mohua and robins along the Routeburn and Rakiura tracks.

Kiwi, robin and pteke releases marked the first translocations as part of the projects long-term species restoration plans. Over a five-and-a-half-year period, the Air New Zealand Great Walks Biodiversity Project will fund conservation initiatives that, along with restoring track habitats, also aim to:

Establish new Rakiura tokoeka/kiwi and robin populations on the Rakiura Track

Reintroduce takah and pteke/brown teal to the Milford Track

Reintroduce teke/saddleback and kkako to Lake Waikaremoana

Restore populations of whio/blue duck and mohua/yellowhead in the Routeburn Valley

In the future, it is hoped that visitors will be able to see some of our rarest native birds, some of which have not been seen for over a century, on these premier walking tracks.

For more information visit: doc.govt.nz/airnewzealand

Air New Zealand is proud to support the Department of Conservation by funding biodiversity projects in and around our Great Walks. This work will help bring back some of New Zealands rarest birds to their natural homes.

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Milford Track. Photo: Graham Dainty

Cover image: Lake Waikaremoana. Photo: DOC/90 Seconds

Tongariro Northern Circuit.Photo: DOC/90 Seconds

Heaphy Track.Photo: DOC/90 Seconds

Kepler Track. Photo: Rob Suisted (naturespic.com)

Rakiura Track.Photo: DOC/90 Seconds

Routeburn Track.Photo: Keri Moyle (signsoflife.co.nz)

This publication is produced using paper sourced from well-managed, renewable and legally logged forests.

Edited, designed and published by: Publishing Team, Department of Conservation, Wellington, PO Box 10420, New Zealand | October 2013