Date Time Fulton Hogan continues support for takahē Fulton Hogan signed a partnership agreement with DOC in 2016 to support the Takahē Recovery Programme and it has seen DOC and Ngāi Tahu grow the overall takahē population from around 280 to around 450. The taonga species also moved two steps along the threat classification system, from nationally critical to nationally vulnerable, in 2017 and a new wild population was started in Kahurangi National Park in 2018. Fulton Hogan Managing Director Cos Bruyn and DOC Director-General Lou Sanson yesterday (Thursday 8 July) signed a renewed partnership agreement at Willowbank Wildlife Reserve in Christchurch. The occasion also celebrated the arrival of a new takahē pair – the aptly named Hogan and his mate Proteus – to start a takahē breeding programme at Willowbank.