Wildlands
  • Company
    • News
    • Newsletters
    • Our values
    • Reports and Other Outputs
    • Jobs at Wildlands
    • Awards
    • Links
    • Health, Safety and Environment
    • The Wildlands Logo
    • Copyright
    • Rotorua Botanical Society
  • People
  • Services
    • Assessment of Ecological Effects (AEEs)
    • Biosecurity
    • Ecological Evaluation
    • Ecological Landscape Design
    • Ecosystem Restoration & Rehabilitation
    • Fauna Surveys & Monitoring
    • Freshwater & Estuarine Wetlands
    • Indigenous Ecosystem Processes
    • Indigenous Revegetation
    • Mapping & GIS Services
    • Monitoring Design & Implementation
    • Offshore Islands
    • Pacific Islands
    • Strategic Advice
    • Sustainable Farm Planning
    • Threatened Species
    • Vegetation & Habitat Surveys
    • Weeds
    • Plant for Good
  • Projects
  • Contact

News article

Saving Auckland’s lizard fauna

Recent changes in Auckland Council’s resource consenting process have given local lizard fauna a fighting chance at survival in the face of the region’s rapidly growing development sector. In a bid to streamline ecological resource consent conditions, landowners looking to undertake works that may affect indigenous skinks and geckos are now increasingly responsible for taking measures to protect them. Auckland Wildlands herpetologist Jacqui Wairepo has been lucky enough to rescue a number of forest geckos (Mokopirirakau granulatus) and copper skinks (Oligosoma aeneum) in recent months, and relocate them safely to areas protected from future development.

New Zealand’s lizard fauna is highly cryptic and under constant threat from predation and habitat degradation. With at least two thirds of species in Auckland classified as ‘At Risk’, this makes successful lizard salvage operations increasingly important for the longevity of these taonga.

Posted: 17 January 2017

Prev article
All articles
Next article

In this section

  • Company
    • News
    • Newsletters
    • Our values
    • Reports and Other Outputs
    • Jobs at Wildlands
    • Awards
    • Links
    • Health, Safety and Environment
    • The Wildlands Logo
    • Copyright
    • Rotorua Botanical Society
      • Publications
      • Newsletters
      • Field Trips
      • Membership Form
      • John Nicholls Memorial Research Grant
Providing outstanding ecological services to sustain and improve our environments
Westpac Rotorua Business Excellence Awards Supreme Winner Toitū Enviromark Diamond Ekos Zero Carbon

Call free: 0508 945 369

© 2022 Wildland Consultants Ltd
Website by RS

  • Home
  • Company
    • News
    • Newsletters
    • Our values
    • Reports and Other Outputs
    • Jobs at Wildlands
    • Awards
    • Links
    • Health, Safety and Environment
    • The Wildlands Logo
    • Copyright
    • Rotorua Botanical Society
      • Publications
      • Newsletters
      • Field Trips
      • Membership Form
      • John Nicholls Memorial Research Grant
  • People
  • Services
    • Assessment of Ecological Effects (AEEs)
    • Biosecurity
      • Pest Animals
    • Ecological Evaluation
    • Ecological Landscape Design
    • Ecosystem Restoration & Rehabilitation
    • Fauna Surveys & Monitoring
      • Aquatic Fauna
      • Bats
      • Birds
      • Lizards & Frogs
      • Terrestrial Invertebrates
    • Freshwater & Estuarine Wetlands
    • Indigenous Ecosystem Processes
    • Indigenous Revegetation
    • Mapping & GIS Services
    • Monitoring Design & Implementation
    • Offshore Islands
    • Pacific Islands
    • Strategic Advice
    • Sustainable Farm Planning
    • Threatened Species
    • Vegetation & Habitat Surveys
    • Weeds
    • Plant for Good
      • Riparian Indigenous Planting
      • Shelterbelts
      • Woodlots/forestry
  • Projects
  • Contact