Upper Wainui Valley
Upper Wainui Valley
The Upper Wainui Valley is controlled for large herbivores and possums because the catchment is a water collection area for Wellington. The Wainui catchment is very high value. It contains some of the best forest in the lower half of the North Island. Most of it has never been logged and fully mature podocarp forest with small wetlands in the wide valleys still exist. One of those valleys (Skull Gully) has intensive predator control.
Upper Orongorongo Valley
Upper Orongorongo Valley
The Upper Orongorongo Valley is controlled for large herbivores and possums because the catchment is a water collection areas for Wellington. It is mainly beech forest, some podocarp and totally unmodified wetlands.
Turere Stream
Turere Stream
Turere Stream is a catchment off the Orongorongo River that is fully predator controlled. Kiwi have been released and are breeding.
East Harbour Regional Park
East Harbour Regional Park
East Harbour Regional Park’s forest. This is largely predator controlled and North Island robins have been released and are breeding. Read more here....
The Parangarahu (formerly Pencarrow) Lakes
Parangarahu Lakes
The Parangarahu (formerly Pencarrow) Lakes, Kohangatera and Kohangapiripiri and their extensive wetlands are part of East Harbour Regional Park. These lakes are the best lowland lakes in NZ because they have very few weeds and one lake has an introduced fish. Apart from that they are pristine sea level lakes. Bittern and Spotless Crake live in the wetlands. Both wetlands extend into a privately owned farmland that divide the forest (above) from the lakes.
Somes/Matiu Island
Somes/Matiu Island, Wellington Harbour
Matiu/Somes Island has been revegetated in the last 30 years, has no predators, is now a scientific reserve, and has had robins, tuatara, parakeets and 4 species of lizard reintroduced. Read more here....
Waiu Wetlands
Waiu Wetlands, Wainuiomata
Two small wetlands Waiu and Mohaka are representative examples of pre European wetlands in the Hutt Valley and Wainuiomata. Mohaka wetland is high quality and Waiu will increasingly become so as we help it recover from weeds and past draining.
Speedy Stream and Korokoro Bush
Speedy Stream and Korokoro Bush Belmont
Speedy Stream and Korokoro bush both lie within Belmont Regional Park. They are big accessible areas with their catchments protected.
Baring Head
Baring Head, East Harbour Regional Park
Baring Head has recently been purchased as part of the East Harbour Regional Park. It contains the lower reach of the Wainui River, s well as stunning flood plains, coastal cliffs, rugged coastline and wetlands.
