Projects
Rimutaka Forest Park Charitable Trust has been active in bringing about many improvements to the Park and its environs.
So far to date, the Trust has:
- Built an information kiosk and memorial seat at the Catchpool Road car park
- Built toilets and cooking facilities at the Park campground
- Provided interactive information panels on the Nga Taonga te Ngahere, Five Mile Loop and Orongorongo Tracks
- Implemented and managed predator control programmes (opossum, cats, stoats, rats, hedgehogs and magpies)
- Developed education resource kits
- Provided signage and publicity at Turakirae Scientific Reserve
- Provided active predation control of Catchpool Valley and environs
- Maintained an active trapping regime - targeting stoats - in the Turere Stream and Whakanui Stream areas
- Provided kiwi avoidance training for dogs
- Maintained a tunnel-monitoring network in the Turere Valley to ascertain numbers and presence of mustelids, rodents, weta and other invertebrates. This programme will soon be extended to monitoring for lizards as well
- Developed a Planting and Revegetation Plan for the lower Catchpool Valley and Stream
- Established 5 Minute Bird Count stations for determining the conspicuousness of birds in the Park
To deliver new initiatives we are always looking for keen volunteers - especially those who are as passionate as we are about conservation - to help and/ or manage new projects. If you would like to join us, click here, or call Wendy Newton, our Volunteer Coordinator, on (04) TBA
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Want to hear what a male Brown Kiwi sounds like? Here are two of them calling to each other on the first night of their release into the Rimutaka Forest Park. (848kb wav Recording, courtesy S. Ellis) Click the kiwi to play... |
