September 23rd, 2009
The Pukawa Wildlife Management Trust consists of a small number of dedicated residents who check rat and stoat traps on a weekly basis in the settlement of Pukawa on the shores of Lake Taupo. The group have also established a comprehensive network of rat bait stations to assist in keeping rat numbers at a low […]
September 11th, 2009
Three Hundred dead predators and counting … This has being the success to date since Turangi business people lead by Garth Oakden, Nick Singers and Craig Morey set up the Blue Duck Project Charitable Trust to protect Blue Duck (or “Whio”) on the Tongariro River. This is a great local project which sets out to protect […]
September 2nd, 2009
Late in 2008 Barry Pope, manager of Moerangi Station was awarded with a Tongariro Taupo Conservation Award for the work which has been completed in planting the riparian sections of the station. Moerangi Station is located between Lake Otamangakau and Kuratau, and comprises a large part of the upper catchment of the Kuratau River. The award […]
August 12th, 2009
The Waimarino Wetland is located near Motuoapa and is part of the great South Taupo Wetland. With the aid of the grant from WCEET the Tongariro Natural History Society has been working on a trial eradication of various invasive species including Pines, some water weed species and the Grey (or Pussy) Willow, a species that […]
August 12th, 2009
In April 2007 local Kaumatua of the Maungatautari region were able to release three species of endangered whitebait into the inland ecological island thanks to the aid of WCEET and Waikato whitebait farmers Jan and Charles Mitchell. The Maungatautari Ecological Island Trust seeks to recreate, as much as possible, the ecosystem that once existed on […]
