Our beautifully refurbished kiwi house is open and Manukura, little white kiwi, is permanently in her new enclosure for you to see. 

There are two other kiwi in the next door enclosure during breeding season (September until May) there is fantastic viewing in to the incubation and brooding rooms where kiwi are hatched and hand-reared until they are ready to be released in to the forest.

The redevelopment features a state-of-the-art theatre which continuously shows three short movies that deliver the relationship between our forest restoration, pest eradication and kiwi breeding programmes.   All of this is complemented with a wonderful forest critter display that children will love – lots of creepy crawlies!

Our living dinosaur - the fantastic tuatara - is in his new enclosure, right at the exit from the kiwi house.

It is a fantastic experience and we warmly welcome you to visit as soon as you can.