AONGATETE FOREST RESTORATION
The Aongatete Forest Restoration Trust (AFRT) was set up in 2006 by Tauranga Forest and Bird and the Katikati Rotary Club and is supported by local volunteers, landowners and Ngai Tamawhariua who have the Kaitiaki role over this forest.
AFRT carries out pest control within the Aongatete Forest near Katikati focusing on rat and possum control in a 270ha area of lowland coastal forest.
See www.forestandbird.org.nz/what-we-do/branches/tauranga/aongatete-forest-restoration-trust for more information.
OTANEWAINUKU KIWI TRUST www.kiwitrust.org
The Otanewainuku Kiwi Trust is a community based Conservation Trust formed in 2002 by Te Puke Forest and Bird and other members of the community concerned at the decline of North Island brown kiwi in the Otanewainuku forest.
Contact: For further information or to register your interest in helping out please contact Nigel Veale on 5749759.
WEBSITE LINKS
Exploring the Kaimai Bush http://www.kaimaibush.co.nz
"Exploring the Kaimai Bush" is here to help people learn about some of the fungi, and native flora of the Kaimai -Mamaku Forest Park, with particular emphasis on the area near Katikati, in the Western Bay of Plenty of New Zealand
