Dear  Lloyd

 

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Your request has been forwarded to the relevant business group for
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Yours sincerely

 

Emma Wolff

for Director-General

 

Emma Wolff
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Department of Conservation Te Papa Atawhai

-----Original Message-----
From: Lloyd Jerome <[FOI #8233 email]>
Sent: Wednesday, 4 July 2018 10:01 p.m.
To: OIA <[DOC request email]>
Subject: Official Information request - Northland region Kiwi deaths

 

Dear Department of Conservation,

 

Under the OIA, I would like you to provide for me the figures you have on
record (since records of this nature began) for the number of verified
Kiwi deaths in the Northland region. Specifically, I would like to know
the number of Kiwi that were wearing tracking devices that have died, and
what cause of death was attributed in each case. I am only interested in
recorded deaths, not extrapolated figures nor assumptions.

 

Yours faithfully,

 

Lloyd Jerome

 

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Dear Lloyd,

 

I am managing your OIA request, and am just seeking some clarification to
ensure we meet your request adequately, as follows:

 

 1. My interpretation of your request is that you would like to know the
number of kiwi that were wearing tracking devices that have died, and
the probably cause of death, NOT the total number of recorded deaths
(with or without tracking devices) – please can you confirm?
 2. In order to be able to manage your request within the standard OIA
timeframe, I would like to suggest we provide records made within the
last 10 years. If we go back to when DOC started (31 years ago), we
will have to source archived materials, which will take significantly
longer, and we will almost certainly need to extend the response
timeframe. Please advise whether my suggestion will meet your
requirements.

 

If you would like to discuss in person, please phone me on the number
below, or provide your contact number for me to call.

 

Regards

Andrea

 

 

Andrea Booth | Improvement Manager | Pou Whakapai
Department of Conservation | Te Papa Atawhai | Northland District Office
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-----Original Message-----
From: Lloyd Jerome <[2][FOI #8233 email]>
Sent: Wednesday, 4 July 2018 10:01 p.m.
To: OIA <[3][DOC request email]>
Subject: Official Information request - Northland region Kiwi deaths

 

Dear Department of Conservation,

 

Under the OIA, I would like you to provide for me the figures you have on
record (since records of this nature began) for the number of verified
Kiwi deaths in the Northland region. Specifically, I would like to know
the number of Kiwi that were wearing tracking devices that have died, and
what cause of death was attributed in each case. I am only interested in
recorded deaths, not extrapolated figures nor assumptions.

 

Yours faithfully,

 

Lloyd Jerome

 

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Hi Lloyd,

Thanks for the clarification - that is generally the case a in terms of tagged kiwi.

In terms of timeframes, would you be happy with data from the last 10 years - this will enable us to respond to your request within the timeframe.

Regards
Andrea

-----Original Message-----
From: Lloyd Jerome <[FYI request #8233 email]>
Sent: Monday, 9 July 2018 7:35 p.m.
To: Andrea Booth <[email address]>
Subject: Re: 18-E-0354 – Departmental OIA – Request - Jerome

Dear Andrea Booth,

Many thanks for getting back to me so swiftly.

Here’s the clarification you’re looking for:

I’m working on the assumptions that:

1) the tagged Kiwi population is a random representation of the total population.
2) all tagged Kiwi that die are recovered from the environment, and post-mortem cause of death is established.

What I would like to know are the causes of death of these tagged birds. (Eg. natural causes, cars, dogs, drowning, poisoning etc.)

I hope these are reasonably straightforward statistics to report.

Yours sincerely,

Lloyd Jerome

-----Original Message-----

Dear Lloyd,

 

I am managing your OIA request, and am just seeking some clarification to ensure we meet your request adequately, as follows:

 

 1. My interpretation of your request is that you would like to know the number of kiwi that were wearing tracking devices that have died, and the probably cause of death, NOT the total number of recorded deaths (with or without tracking devices) – please can you confirm?
 2. In order to be able to manage your request within the standard OIA timeframe, I would like to suggest we provide records made within the last 10 years. If we go back to when DOC started (31 years ago), we will have to source archived materials, which will take significantly longer, and we will almost certainly need to extend the response timeframe. Please advise whether my suggestion will meet your requirements.

 

If you would like to discuss in person, please phone me on the number below, or provide your contact number for me to call.

 

Regards

Andrea

 

 

Andrea Booth | Improvement Manager | Pou Whakapai Department of Conservation | Te Papa Atawhai | Northland District Office | PO Box 842 | Whangarei 0140 | New Zealand
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Kia ora Lloyd,

 

Please find attached the response from Sue Reed-Thomas to your OIA request
18-E-0394.

 

Nga mihi

Andrea

 

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Hi Lloyd,

I just had a quick look at your email addresses and I didn't realise they were different for your 2 different OIA requests, and I have used the wrong email address - my apologies.

We are currently managing the other OIA request from you:

OIA 18-E-0354 - causes of death of transmittered kiwi in Northland for the last 10 years.

This request will be with you by the 1 August as per the OIA requirements.

Regards
Andrea

-----Original Message-----
From: Lloyd Jerome <[FOI #8233 email]>
Sent: Friday, 27 July 2018 10:48 a.m.
To: Andrea Booth <[email address]>
Subject: Re: Response to OIA 18-E-0394

Dear Andrea Booth,
It appears that the reply you sent to me was for another question I had asked. So I have not yet received a reply to this question.

Yours sincerely,

Lloyd Jerome

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Kia ora Lloyd,

 

Please find attached the response from Sue Reed-Thomas to your OIA request 18-E-0394.

 

Nga mihi

Andrea

 

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Good morning Lloyd

 

Please find the Department of Conservation’s response to your OIA request
attached here.

 

Shana Harding

Strategic Projects Manager

Department of Conservation—Te Papa Atawhai
Phone: 027 536 6794

Whangarei Office

2 South End Ave, Whangarei 0110  / PO Box 842 Whangarei 0140

 

 

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Dear Lloyd

Just confirming that we will provide the further information you have requested as soon as possible. It requires some collation of data from a number of offices and rangers.
Sorry I thought I had sent my acknowledgement on 31/7 but it was still in my drafts.

Shana Harding
Strategic Projects Manager
Department of Conservation—Te Papa Atawhai
Phone: 027 536 6794
Whangarei Office
2 South End Ave, Whangarei 0110  / PO Box 842 Whangarei 0140

-----Original Message-----
From: Lloyd Jerome <[FOI #8233 email]>
Sent: Tuesday, 31 July 2018 12:40 p.m.
To: Shana Harding <[email address]>
Subject: Re: DOC OIA response

Dear Shana Harding,

My grateful thanks for your help in compiling these figures.

Having read the data you have supplied, please could I ask for some more information within this query?

I would like to know the approximate age (hatchling, juvenile, adult, will be sufficient) of each of the dead Kiwi.

How many Kiwi have been transmitter-tagged in the last 10 years in Northland?

I apologise profusely that I did not ask these questions initially, but the answers will be a great help in my understanding of the total proportion of Kiwi that die every year by extrapolating the data to the entire population in our region.

Yours sincerely,

Lloyd Jerome

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Good morning Lloyd

 

Please find the Department of Conservation’s response to your OIA request attached here.

 

Shana Harding

Strategic Projects Manager

Department of Conservation—Te Papa Atawhai
Phone: 027 536 6794

Whangarei Office

2 South End Ave, Whangarei 0110  / PO Box 842 Whangarei 0140

 

 

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Hi Lloyd,

Data on age of birds as requested.

I don't currently have the figures of the total number of birds with transmitters, but this could not be used to estimate the proportion of kiwi that die in the region as the vast majority of the birds with transmitters lived in sites which were managed for predators, and which have a high level of dog control by the surrounding community. These figures do not reflect what is happening in other parts of Northland, which have much higher levels of kiwi deaths from dogs and stoats.

Cheers
Andrea

-----Original Message-----
From: Lloyd Jerome <[FOI #8233 email]>
Sent: Tuesday, 31 July 2018 12:40 p.m.
To: Shana Harding <[email address]>
Subject: Re: DOC OIA response

Dear Shana Harding,

My grateful thanks for your help in compiling these figures.

Having read the data you have supplied, please could I ask for some more information within this query?

I would like to know the approximate age (hatchling, juvenile, adult, will be sufficient) of each of the dead Kiwi.

How many Kiwi have been transmitter-tagged in the last 10 years in Northland?

I apologise profusely that I did not ask these questions initially, but the answers will be a great help in my understanding of the total proportion of Kiwi that die every year by extrapolating the data to the entire population in our region.

Yours sincerely,

Lloyd Jerome

-----Original Message-----

Good morning Lloyd

 

Please find the Department of Conservation’s response to your OIA request attached here.

 

Shana Harding

Strategic Projects Manager

Department of Conservation—Te Papa Atawhai
Phone: 027 536 6794

Whangarei Office

2 South End Ave, Whangarei 0110  / PO Box 842 Whangarei 0140

 

 

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