A tiny island off Nelson is the focus of a community conservation effort. Volunteer trappers are flocking to Haulashore Island to help re-build its special marine ecosystem, that will beckon back penguins, lizards and rare lichens. Scientists Jonathan Banks and Andrew Fidler are among the small group of volunteers, Friends of Haulashore - an island created more than a century ago when a gap was blasted in Nelson's famed Boulder Bank for shipping.
On a trap-checking mission, Andrew told our Nelson reporter Tracy Neal how the island got its name, while Jonathan explained the background to the programme.
Photo: RNZ / Tracy Neal
