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The Kea Conservation Trust is a New Zealand conservation non-governmental organization working to protect 
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The Trust's activities are diverse and include:
* Providing educational material.
* Working with community partners including the Fiordland Wapiti Foundation to conduct kea research.
* Monitoring threats to kea in areas such as the
Kea Database
Official website
Nature conservation organisations based in New Zealand Bird conservation organizations Environmental organizations established in 2006
kea
The kea (; ; ''Nestor notabilis'') is a species of large parrot in the family Nestoridae found in the forested and alpine regions of the South Island of New Zealand. About long, it is mostly olive-green with a brilliant orange under its wings ...
, a large alpine parrot found only in the South Island
The South Island, also officially named , is the larger of the two major islands of New Zealand in surface area, the other being the smaller but more populous North Island. It is bordered to the north by Cook Strait, to the west by the Tasman ...
of New Zealand.
History
The Kea Conservation Trust was incorporated in 2006 as a charitable trust, then later registered as a charity in 2008. It was founded by current chairperson Tamsin Orr-Walker and three other trustees to raise money for research and to work with other community conservation groups, such as the Fiordland Wapiti Foundation. Since 2017Peter Hillary
Peter Edmund Hillary (born 26 December 1954) is a New Zealand mountaineer, philanthropist and writer. He is the son of adventurer Sir Edmund Hillary, who, along with mountaineer Tenzing Norgay, completed the first successful ascent of Mount Ev ...
, son of mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary, has been the patron of the Trust. In 2019, Orr-Walker was appointed as a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to kea conservation.
Activities
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The Trust's activities are diverse and include:
* Providing educational material.
* Working with community partners including the Fiordland Wapiti Foundation to conduct kea research.
* Monitoring threats to kea in areas such as the Mātukituki River
The Mātukituki River is a short braided river in the Southern Alps (New Zealand), Southern Alps of New Zealand's South Island. Both its West Branch and East Branch originate from the Main Divide mountain ranges near Mount Aspiring / Tititea. Thei ...
valley, and in Fiordland.
* Since 2017, held biennial 'Kea Summits' to provide a forum in which people can network and share knowledge on kea status, threats and conservation, as well as come up with conservation strategies.
* Working with commercial partners such as forestry companies and ski field operators to understand more about populations of kea in the vicinity of these sites.
* Running thKea Database
citizen science
Citizen science (CS) (similar to community science, crowd science, crowd-sourced science, civic science, participatory monitoring, or volunteer monitoring) is scientific research conducted with participation from the public (who are sometimes re ...
platform where members of the public can report sightings of individual kea and look up birds based on bands on their legs.
Trustees and office holders
As of 2020 the Trust has six trustees, three appointed office-holders, a scientific advisor, two field personnel and a "kea dog" named Ajax, who was the subject of a book and short documentary film.References
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Official website
Nature conservation organisations based in New Zealand Bird conservation organizations Environmental organizations established in 2006