{"id":6031,"date":"2020-08-01T09:52:16","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T21:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.janszoon.org\/?p=6031"},"modified":"2020-08-03T10:14:51","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T22:14:51","slug":"drought-conditions-and-weka-giving-abel-tasmans-snails-a-hard-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.janszoon.org\/news\/drought-conditions-and-weka-giving-abel-tasmans-snails-a-hard-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Drought conditions and weka giving Abel Tasman&#8217;s snails a hard time | Nelson Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"6031\" class=\"elementor elementor-6031\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-86cd02f elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"86cd02f\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_image&quot;:{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;&quot;},&quot;_id&quot;:&quot;82233da&quot;,&quot;jet_parallax_layout_image_tablet&quot;:{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;&quot;},&quot;jet_parallax_layout_image_mobile&quot;:{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;&quot;},&quot;jet_parallax_layout_speed&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;%&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:50,&quot;sizes&quot;:[]},&quot;jet_parallax_layout_type&quot;:&quot;scroll&quot;,&quot;jet_parallax_layout_direction&quot;:null,&quot;jet_parallax_layout_fx_direction&quot;:null,&quot;jet_parallax_layout_z_index&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;jet_parallax_layout_bg_x&quot;:50,&quot;jet_parallax_layout_bg_y&quot;:50,&quot;jet_parallax_layout_bg_size&quot;:&quot;auto&quot;,&quot;jet_parallax_layout_animation_prop&quot;:&quot;transform&quot;,&quot;jet_parallax_layout_on&quot;:[&quot;desktop&quot;,&quot;tablet&quot;],&quot;jet_parallax_layout_bg_x_tablet&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;jet_parallax_layout_bg_x_mobile&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;jet_parallax_layout_bg_y_tablet&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;jet_parallax_layout_bg_y_mobile&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;jet_parallax_layout_bg_size_tablet&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;jet_parallax_layout_bg_size_mobile&quot;:&quot;&quot;}]}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5c063b2\" data-id=\"5c063b2\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-23b0050 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"23b0050\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"sics-component__html-injector sics-component__story__intro sics-component__story__paragraph\">There may be fewer tourists walking the Abel Tasman track, but a group of carnivorous snails that call the park home are getting a hard time from a booming weka population.<\/p><p class=\"sics-component__html-injector sics-component__story__paragraph\">Both the critically endangered Rhytida o\u2019connori and nationally declining Powelliphanta hochstetteri snails are found in the Abel Tasman National Park, near Nelson.<\/p><p class=\"sics-component__html-injector sics-component__story__paragraph\">Project Janszoon have been monitoring the snails at two sites for the past four years and have found while numbers are increasing in the Canaan area, their numbers are falling in the upper Wainui Valley.<\/p><p class=\"sics-component__html-injector sics-component__story__paragraph\">Scientific advisor Ruth Bollongino\u200b said snails were facing pressure from predators and the hot and dry summers which resulted in changes in the forest.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/environment\/122281861\/drought-conditions-and-weka-giving-abel-tasmans-native-snails-a-hard-time\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ MORE FROM STUFF STORY HERE<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There may be fewer tourists walking the Abel Tasman track, but a group of carnivorous snails that call the park home are getting a hard time from a booming weka population. 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