{"id":502245,"date":"2026-06-30T06:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T06:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/502245\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T06:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T06:11:08","slug":"farmland-effective-nesting-habitat-for-hoiho-penguins-new-research-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/502245\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmland effective nesting habitat for hoiho penguins, new research finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cA couple of farmers on the Otago Peninsula independently found that they could make artificial nest sites, just boxes put on the ground, and they were quite successful for nesting,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAll that was needed to make sure they were good, safe spots was to make sure they were shaded, and that was done by putting a clump of trees around them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">Without a serious turnaround, scientists predict hoiho could become locally extinct on the mainland within two decades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">Lalas said researchers concluded that diseases were the overwhelming threat to hoiho populations in the South Island \u2013 something he said should be the priority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cRather than spending money on trying to create a new forest habitat, all the money should be going into fixing the problems caused by diseases, by either trying to find cures or vaccines for the diseases,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">\u2013 RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cA couple of farmers on the Otago Peninsula independently found that they could make artificial nest sites, just&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[15308,172435,29242,36652,11424,2082,4441,250724,102146,117,111,139,69,35994,1518,147,406],"class_list":["post-502245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-charlie","tag-dreaver","tag-effective","tag-farmland","tag-finds","tag-for","tag-habitat","tag-hoiho","tag-nesting","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-penguins","tag-research","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}