Tamatea/Dusky: The birthplace of New Zealand conservation

It’s remote and rugged, an archipelago of over 700 islands – and the birthplace of New Zealand’s conservation efforts.

Tamatea or Dusky Sound’s beauty and history have been captured in a new book by Peta Carey, which also documents the lengths to which people have gone to protect the wildlife living within it. Resolution Island, the biggest in the area and named for the ship sailed by Captain James Cook as he charted “Dusky Bay” and its surrounds in 1773, became New Zealand’s first sanctuary just over a century later.

Groundbreaking work on predator control continues in the area today, as Peta found out during her research for Tamatea Dusky: Conservation and history in Fiordland’s Dusky Sound.

Tamatea/Dusky: The birthplace of New Zealand conservation
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