Geoff Park, Te Ati Awa, African Wild Dog

Last Month Geoff Park died
Geoffrey Nicholls Park, ecologist: born July 7, 1946; married 1970 Lindsay Banks (dissolved) 3 sons 1 daughter; died Wellington, March 17, 2009, aged 62.
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http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/documentaries/nga_uruora
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not seen: Theatre Country ... Essays on Landscape and Whenua ... Geoff Park ... Paperback, 286 pages, 150 x 235mm, NZ, 2006
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Sunday, 19 April
4:06 pm
Nga- Uruora – The Groves of Life.
Ecology and History in a New Zealand Landscape, by the late Geoff Park
During 4 ‘til 8 with Katrina Batten
As a tribute to the noted New Zealand ecologist Geoff Park who died in March, we’re featuring his 6-part radio series produced by Matthew Leonard in our Sunday Feature slot. The series draws Geoff Park’s 1995 book Nga- Uruora – The Groves of Life Ecology and History in a New Zealand Landscape which has become a classic of New Zealand environmental writing, and been reprinted regularly since its 1995 publication.
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Te Ati Awa
musing on my birthplace, by Pipitea St


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the stream derived their name from the large pipi bed on the foreshore.

Te Ati Awa was a Taranaki tribe. In the 1820s sections of Te A-ti Awa began migrating down the North Island in response to attacks from Ngapuhi and Waikato. Over the course of a series of historic battles they moved to the Kapiti Coast and then to Te Whanganui-a-tara
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About 600 Te Ati Awa went back to Taranaki in 1848. More Ma-ori returned to Taranaki as a consequence of the land wars there in the 1860s. The Te A-ti Awa sub-tribe Te Matehou, of Pipitea pa-, moved to join their kin at Waiwhetu-. Nga-ti Tama also moved away, with those in O-hariu migrating to Whakapuaka near Nelson. Those left to keep the fires burning in Wellington after about 1890 belonged predominantly to the Te A-ti Awa sub-tribes of Nga-ti Te Whiti, Te Matehou, Nga-ti Tawhirikura and Nga-ti Puketapu. This remains the situation today.

Where I grew up: just above ngati Poneke, a Pa created for all iwi to share in Wgtn
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African Wild Dog
One of my favourite animals.
Startlingly endangered.

They have some at Wellington zoo (why?). I asked a keeper how many were left wild. He said 5000. I thought he was joking.
Paul Allen has given $500K to a project that uses AWDog shit to keep wild populations in place.
gps collars indicate that they wont pass top-dog shit.
I seem to recall that a while back, some researchers stopped darting and colloring AWDogs because they noticed higher mortality in darted packs.
Maybe they have solved the problem (distemper?)