Editing Tuatara (section)

====Brothers Island tuatara====
''Sphenodon punctatus guntheri'' is present naturally on one small island with a population of approximately 400. In 1995, 50&nbsp;juvenile and 18&nbsp;adult Brothers Island tuatara were moved to Titi Island in [[Cook Strait]], and their establishment monitored. Two years later, more than half of the animals had been seen again and of those all but one had gained weight. In 1998, 34&nbsp;juveniles from captive breeding and 20&nbsp;wild-caught adults were similarly transferred to [[Matiu/Somes Island]], a more publicly accessible location in Wellington Harbour. The captive juveniles were from induced layings from wild females.<ref name=recovery />

In late October&nbsp;2007, 50&nbsp;tuatara collected as eggs from North Brother Island and hatched at [[Victoria University of Wellington|Victoria University]] were being released onto [[Long Island, Marlborough|Long Island]] in the outer [[Marlborough Sounds]]. The animals had been cared for at Wellington Zoo for the previous five years and had been kept in secret in a specially built enclosure at the zoo, off display.<ref>{{cite press release | title = Rare tuatara raised at Wellington Zoo | publisher = [[Wellington Zoo]] | date = 29 October 2007 | url = http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0710/S00061.htm |access-date =19 April 2008}}</ref>

There is another out of country population of Brothers Island tuatara that was given to the [[San Diego Zoological Society]] and is housed off-display at the [[San Diego Zoo]] facility in Balboa.<ref>{{cite news |series=Reptiles |title=Tuatara |department=At the Zoo |publisher = San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance |url=http://animals.sandiegozoo.org/animals/tuatara |access-date=11 May 2014}}</ref> No successful reproductive efforts have been reported yet.