Lucky SIT Students Witness Rare Takahē in the Wild

Lucky SIT Students Witness Rare Takahē in the Wild

Southern Institute of Technology students struck gold during a recent field trip when they spotted rare takahē birds roaming wild in the Greenstone Valley.The Bachelor of Environmental Management Year 1 students were on a three-day expedition in mid-March to learn backcountry skills like GPS navigation and apply classroom ecology theory when they made the unexpected discovery.Student Kadin Foster described seeing the takahē as "quite incredible"…