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The reserve is situated on Waite Rd, approximately 7km north-west of Pirongia in the Waikato.

Kererū, tūī, bellbird, North Island fantail, grey warbler and silvereye.

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Walking tracks: The reserve has one circular track that takes an hour to complete.

The New Zealand Fairy Tern – which has teetered on the brink of extinction since the 1970s – is strug

Tracks: There are three tracks in the 60 hectare reserve, from 20 minutes to an hour and fifteen minutes. The longest track (the blue track) circuits the whole reserve.

In 2020 a review of the Sesqui track, running from Bridge House and along the awa, showed the reserve and its historical elements to be overrun with weeds, especially tradescantia, privet, jasmine, ginger, montbretia, ladder fern, acmena and Japanese sp

Field Reserve is a three hectare reserve of mature coastal and lowland broadleaf forest on the hills behind Paraparaumu growing on sandstone.

The Dunedin, South Otago and Southland branches are joining efforts to conduct large scale conservation in and around Tautuku, in the Catlins.

In 1964, Forest & Bird purchased 550 hectares of land in the Tautuku region with funds bequeathed by Mrs Lenz. This land, known today as the Lenz Reserve, consists predominantly of regenerating kāmahi/rimu/rātā forest.

The Pāuatahanui Wildlife Reserve is a 50 hectare, fully restored wetland on the eastern edge of Pāuatahanui Inlet. DOC owns 46 hectares and Forest & Bird the remaining four.

Walking tracks: no public tracks

The locals: Yellow-eyed penguins, bush birds, fern birds and the occasional seal or sea lion

This urban park project started in early 2024 in partnership with the Rotorua Lakes Council and the BOP