Hard native wildlife conservation word search
Whenua Hou, Tiritiri Matangi, translocation and captive breeding: twenty-eight words from the work of saving native species in an eighteen by eighteen grid. They run in all eight directions, backwards included.
- Bait station
- Biosecurity
- Captive breeding
- Hihi
- Hoiho
- Kaitiakitanga
- Kākāpō
- Kāpiti Island
- Kiwi
- Kōkako
- Māui dolphin
- Nest box
- Offshore island
- Orokonui
- Pest fence
- Predator free
- Ranger
- Sanctuary
- Stoat trap
- Takahē
- Tiritiri Matangi
- Translocation
- Trap line
- Tree planting
- Tuatara
- Volunteer
- Whenua Hou
- Zealandia
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- Bait station
- Biosecurity
- Captive breeding
- Hihi
- Hoiho
- Kaitiakitanga
- Kākāpō
- Kāpiti Island
- Kiwi
- Kōkako
- Māui dolphin
- Nest box
- Offshore island
- Orokonui
- Pest fence
- Predator free
- Ranger
- Sanctuary
- Stoat trap
- Takahē
- Tiritiri Matangi
- Translocation
- Trap line
- Tree planting
- Tuatara
- Volunteer
- Whenua Hou
- Zealandia
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About this word search
Kaitiakitanga means guardianship of the land and sea, and it drives much of the conservation work in Aotearoa. Kākāpō breed on Whenua Hou, also known as Codfish Island, Tiritiri Matangi in the Hauraki Gulf was replanted by volunteers and is now home to rare birds, and Kāpiti Island off the Kāpiti Coast is one of the country's oldest nature reserves. Orokonui near Dunedin and Zealandia in Wellington are mainland sanctuaries behind predator-proof fences.
The grid is eighteen by eighteen and the words run in all eight directions, backwards included. Tiritiri Matangi and captive breeding are the longest at fifteen letters, followed by offshore island at fourteen and kaitiakitanga and translocation at thirteen. Hihi and kiwi are four letters each. Place names run together, so look for KAPITIISLAND and WHENUAHOU. Stoat trap and trap line both contain TRAP, which can lead you astray.
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