Snares Island new Zealand

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Snaares Island, New Zealand - GO Crossing

Snares Islands is a small group of islands about 200 kilometers southern of New Zealand's southern island. Snares are made up of the North East Island and the smaller Broughton Island as well as the more remote Western Chain Islands about 5 km away from the WSW. Snares are located only 200 km from Bluff, New Zealand's southest town.

It' an astonishing island full of sea birds around the coastline. You can see Snares' Crested Penguins, Tomtits, Long-birds, Cape Pigeons, Antarctic Tern, White-fronted Tern and Red-billed Gulls. The Snares Islands are home to an estimate of 6 million soot shear waters. The Zodiac is used to carry people to the east side.

Access to these archipelago is only possible by Invercargill in New Zealand.

Greater albatross in the Snare Islands

A yearly Buller's Albatros count in the Snares Isles was a success, with more brood couples being enumerated and managed. The most important hatcheries for this indigenous albumross are located on these isolated islets, 120 km southwest of Stewart Island. It was conducted by Paul Sagar, a researcher who, like many of these lovely species, has been coming back to Snares Island every year since 1992 to collect information about their hatchery work.

"This year' s rise seems to be due to an increased number of young species that have been accepted into the brood population," Sagar said. "By 2017 we took in 247 previously bandaged "breeding adults" and another 56 were tamed as "first breeders". Zagar added a fledgling avian in 1972, returning in 2017 and being 45 years old, the oldest captured album of the South Buller.

"This is an inestimable record to monitor how the populations are increasing and whether or not these species need further assistance. "We have worked tirelessly to mitigate the risk to seafowl from fisheries, and Paul's work is helping us see if these actions have been efficient and informs us about many other issues related to their ecology and wellbeing.

There are very few humans who can end up on the sheltered Snares Islands (this will require a specific DOC research grant to conserve these pristine habitats), but you can watch Paul and his crew study these albatrosses on a recent Ocean Bounty film.