Nicola Toki

Adult huhu beetles cannot eat, only live for 2 weeks and in Hamilton a cat ate one and was dead the next day. They're not great at coordinated movement and if you disturb a huhu beetle in the daytime… Audio

There are two New Zealand smelt species - the common smelt, found throughout New Zealand, and Stokell's smelt, only found in Canterbury.  Audio

Nicola Toki, Doc's threatened species ambassador tells us about - the climbing galaxias, a fish that can climb up walls and out of the bucket you put it in. Audio

This week's critter is the desperate-to-be-given-a-pronouncable-name Potamopyrgus Oppidanus, the freshwater snail. Audio

Our critter this week is the Auckland Island rail - NZ's rarest rail only found in subantarctic Auckland Islands group. Doc's Threatened Species Ambassador, Nicola Toki says it's probably flightless… Audio, Gallery

It was once believed the golden plovers flocked when it was about to rain, but their numbers are now falling dramatically. Audio

We all know this critter, the Kina! While not endangered it has significant impact on biodiversity - it can boom to uncontrolled numbers if left unchecked by predators. Audio

Doc's threatened species ambassador Nicola Toki tells us about this week's critter - the Clutha flathead galaxias. Audio

Doc's Threatened Species Ambassador Nicola Toki tells us about this weeks' critter the Pygmy goosefoot. A nationally endangered species that was presumed extinct and discovered again three years… Audio

This week's critter is begging to be knitted - it's called the elegant gecko, also known as Auckland green gecko. Doc's threatened Species Amabssador says they're critical for ecosystem processes but… Audio, Gallery

Doc's threatened species ambassador Nicola Toki tells reveals all about the Smeagol - the genus of small air-breathing sea slugs of the upper intertidal zone discovered in 1979. Audio

This week DoC's Threatened species Ambassador Nicola Toki tells us about New Zealand's second smallest butterfly, the boulder butterfly or Lycaena boldenarum.  Audio, Gallery

Nicola Toki Doc's Threatened Species Ambassador is here to tell us about this week's critter - the black tunnelweb spider which was Peter Jackson's inspiration for Shelob the spider in Lord of the… Audio, Gallery

Doc's Threatened Species Ambassador, Nicola Toki talks this week about the newly discovered Northland mudfish which she says is nationally vulnerable. Audio

Nicola Toki, Doc's Threatened Species Ambassador tells us about the Frosted Phoenix, - dubbed New Zealand's most enigmatic moth. Audio, Gallery

Nicola Toki, Doc's Threatened Species Ambassador talks today about the Cook Strait giant weta, Deinacrida rugosa.  Audio, Gallery

Nicola Toki, Doc's Threatened Species Ambassador, talks today about a group of Australasian shrubs or small trees, often with large toothed leaves and big daisy-like flowers or clumps of flowers… Audio, Gallery

This week's critter is the Protodendrophagus antipodes or Herbivorous alpine beetle. Audio, Gallery

The Dryland Sow Thistle, a beautiful nationally vulnerable daisy showing interesting colour variation in its leaves: grey-brown-green. Audio, Gallery