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Park Rangers - First Episode
Television (Full Length Episode) – 2002
This Touchdown series profiles the working lives of rangers who work for the Department of Conservation and Ministry of Fisheries, whose office is "the great New Zealand outdoors". This opening episode meets three rangers looking after threatened taonga: Al Hutt is a sea shepherd to Akaroa's Hector's dolphins; lizard hunter Keri Neilson rescues a chevron skink on Great Barrier Island; and Steve Sawyer defends dotterel nests from cats, hedgehogs, stoats and boy racers on the Wherowhero Lagoon beach (near Gisborne). The series screened on TV One in early 2002.
Here we are folks: another day on the water. I wish I had an office job! Ha!– Ranger Al Hutt
Key Cast & Crew
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Produced by
Touchdown Productions
Source
Eyeworks New Zealand
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