Projects

In 2002, a group of volunteers from the Rotorua Branch of Forest & Bird, and the Rotorua Botanical Society started a project to remove animal and plant pests from a large part of the Lake Tikitapu Scenic Reserve and the nearby lakeside strip at Lake

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

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

NOTICE: The Colin Kerr-Taylor Reserve is currently closed to the public protect our kauri from the spread of kauri dieback. Please respect this ban and visit one of the many other walks around the Auckland Region. 

The native plant nursery is helping to put back what we have lost … habitat; There is no better way to reverse this trend than to assist us to continue the supply of young healthy plants to Zealandia, community groups and our own projects

The locals: Kereru, grey warbler, fantail, morepork, whitehead, bellbird, tui and kingfisher

Walking tracks: An easy walking track (1/2 hour) wanders throughout the entire reserve.

Dunedin is a seabird capital with 11 species still breeding close to the city and 19 species frequenting shoreline waters. In all, nearly 40% of New Zealand's seabirds use the waters off Otago. 

Walking tracks: None, but the reserve is easily walk-able.