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Local projects promote restoration, revegetation, weed and pest control and increasingbackyard biodiversity . Our branch's main campaign is to bring more native birds back into the city as they travel between and "spill out from reservoirs" where there is good pest control and birds are being re-introduced, like F&B's Ark in the Park in the Waitakere Ranges and Atuanui Restoration Project in Kaipara, parts of the Hunuas and many Hauraki Gulf Islands. This is Auckland Naturally, the first practical example of the regional project being NorthWest Wildlink. Our branch has financially supported F&B projects in other areas of Auckland, like Atuanui in Kaipara.
We also lobby for regional marine protection - Mauis and Marine Reserves campaigns, and RAMSAR status for Kaipara Harbour especially. Along with other Auckland F&B branches, our branch advocated strongly for the Marine Mammal Sanctuary off Auckland's West Coast to protect Mauis dolphins which was gazetted this year, and also for a network of marine reserves in the Waitemata Harbour and Hauraki Gulf.
For more detail about local branch projects, please refer to the list at left. Our main projects are Pollen Island/Motu Manawa marine reserve, Tahuna Torea, and Hamlins Hill.
For information about Forest & Bird projects, reserves and lodges in other parts of the Auckland region, , click here. Members of Central Auckland branch are encouraged to visit and/or help with these projects and F&B reserves in the region.
For more information about other local (restoration)projects that we support, and which provide volunteer work,click here. and also look at the blog and the GreenRoom on this website.
