Consumed 1800 calories. Hiked around Mana Island most of the afternoon.
Once a year all of my labmates go somewhere fun together. This year the destination was Mana Island, a scientific nature reserve of sorts. It used to be a research sheep farm, but then that project ended and NZ decided to try to make it revert back to its natural environment. So now there are many little projects, such as native plant species planting and native birds' nest building, in an attempt to recreate Mana Island pre-farm. In my opinion, they should just let it revert naturally rather than trying to help it along by building wooden condominiums for birds and spending thousands of dollars on capturing birds elsewhere to bring to the island only to have the birds fly back home. Their efforts at wildlife restoration have mostly failed, in case you couldn't tell. Their planting efforts have gone fairly well, but most of the island is still quite desolate. It certainly is nothing close to the forest that it used to be. Oh well. If we have to throw money away it might as well be towards something like this, eh?
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