When you visit the Kiwi Birdlife Park you will have the opportunity to learn about life with the Southern Maori.

Before European settlers arrived in the South Island, the local Maori conquered peaks, found passes and established routes across the mountains.

Their hunt for greenstone, or Pounamu, took them into forbidding places, battling extreme conditions and scraping a life from the land.

The Kiwi Birdlife Park's replica Maori hunting village bring's that world to life in an intimate re-creation of their struggle for survival.