• WILDERNESS LODGE ARTHUR’S PASS – A HIVE OF ACTIVITY — 5/01/12
  With the return of long warm summer days, the manuka shrublands around Wilderness Lodge Arthur’s Pass are once again humming with busy honeybees. Every summer the manuka, with its delicate white flowers, turns the hillsides into a sea of white and provides a fantastic food source for bees.
• WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER MARK CARWARDINE VISITS THE WILDERNESS LODGES — 14/12/11
  British wildlife photographer and zoologist, Mark Carwardine recently visited the Wilderness Lodges on his most recent mission to photograph New Zealand’s special wildlife. Mark main focus at Arthur’s Pass was to find kea parrots and at Lake Moeraki to see the Tawaki penguins.
• THE WILDERNESS LODGES – A GREAT PLACE TO VIEW NEW ZEALAND’S PARROTS. — 12/12/11
  Both of New Zealand's Wilderness Lodges are fantastic places to see Kea, Kakariki and Kaka in the wild.
• A TAWAKI PENGUIN STORY ON THE MOERAKI SEACOAST — 2/10/11
  Tawaki, the Fiordland Crested Penguin breeds only in the south west corner of the South Island. They breed in jungle-like coastal rainforest beneath tree trunks and in jumbled rocks, overhangs and caves. Breeding sites are found from the Paringa River in South Westland south to Stewart Island. Their total population is estimated to be in the order of 2,500 pairs. They are recognised as the second rarest of the worlds 17 penguin species behind the Galapagos penguin that numbers only an estimated 1,500 pairs. There are 3,000-3,500 pairs of Hoiho, the yellow eyed penguin.

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