After starting Ark in the Park in the Waitakere Ranges, John Sumich went on and started Habitat te Henga, protecting Auckland's largest wetland. It involved trapping for stoats to enable the re-introduction of pāteke (brown teal) in 2015 and 2016.
Forest & Bird member Jill Visser set up a volunteer group to restore a former wetland on the Kāpiti Coast because she wanted to take hands-on action to help mitigate climate change.
Forest & Bird is concerned about the risk to endemic Westland petrels from a proposed industrial-scale mining operation south of Punakaiki. By Suzanne Hills, chair of Forest & Bird’s West Coast Branch.
A short easy walk, there and back, with spectacular gorge and river scenery, dryland shrubs and native fungi growing in the damper spots. Maybe even a falcon!
Forest & Bird has teamed up with 26 New Zealand writers and artists to shine a light on the importance of volunteers working at-place to restore nature for future generations.
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