South Island Beaches Turn Red?

A lot of the beaches down in the South island due to many dead red squat lobsters. This problem only occurs if adult squat lobsters give up their surface in the ocean. Many of the teenage lobsters turn up on the beaches with nowhere to breed. 

Many of the lobsters end up clinging on to rocks and from there they start to die. The red colour of the squat lobsters turn the sand red. If all the beaches in the South Island are red then there must be a lot of lobsters down there!

These squat lobsters are really red in colour so no wonder why these beaches show a lot of red!

You Could Win $10,000 Dollars For Finding A Bird?

For three years there has been a reward for who ever finds or sees the South Island Kokako. Over the three years there have been 200 possible cases of people seeing this bird. This bird has been extinct since 2013 and the South Island Kokako Charitable Trust have spoken saying that there are no facts saying that the bird is still alive.

Most people have been submitting a lot of photos saying that they've seen the bird but the photo was identified as one of our other native birds, tui!