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Department of Conservation (DOC) spokesman Julian Tovey said staff had tracked tags today to ensure none of the rare species, known as rowi, were killed when about 20 hectares of land near their nesting areas at the Okarito Kiwi Sanctuary, north of Franz Josef, was torched.

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The rowi was the rarest kiwi species, with a population of around 350.

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Department of Conservation (DOC) spokesman Julian Tovey said staff had tracked tags today to ensure none of the rare species, known as rowi, were killed when about 20 hectares of land near their nesting areas at the Okarito Kiwi Sanctuary, north of Franz Josef, was torched.

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The rowi was the rarest kiwi species, with a population of about 350, he said.

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Jim Livingstone, the department's Franz Josef biodiversity programme manager and head of the rowi recovery project, said the kiwi had to compete for food in Okarito.

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"We estimate approximately one third of the rowi population is currently unproductive," says Duncan.

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Three pairs of the rarest kiwi, rowi kiwi from the West Coast, were released on to predator-free Blumine Island in Queen Charlotte Sound yesterday.

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The transfer to Blumine Island is part of the National Kiwi Recovery Plan to increase the population of rowi to 600 by 2018.

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Three pairs of the world's rarest kiwi - the rowi - have been relocated to Marlborough

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Department of Conservation rowi team leader Duncan Kay said the future of the species could rest on the fertility of the birds released yesterday.

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