A walk along the Orongorongo Track is often a great auditory experience! Besides the bird-song, the sound of the many fast-flowing streams (like the Catchpool Stream depicted here) and of waterfalls nearby is both soothing and stimulating at the same time!
On these pages, you'll sometimes find role descriptions for voluntary tasks that we're currently seeking to fill at Rimutaka Forest Park Trust.
Or perhaps you'd like to join us as an Individual, Family or Corporate Member and contribute in other ways?
If so, please download our Membership Application Form here... (Adobe Acrobat Reader file 39.8kb)
Right now we need additional volunteers for the Dawn Chorus Project and the Kiwi Project.
Primary duties would include the servicing of traps along established trap-lines. Volunteers will be provided with suitable training. The volunteers would need to be reasonably bush savvy and moderately fit. They would need to be prepared to go for a walk for up to 3 hours each time.
Traps are checked weekly during summer and twice a month in winter. Frequency would depend upon the number of volunteers enlisted. Tasks would include baiting and re-setting traps, minor maintenance and extension work. Target pests are possums, rats and stoats.
If this sounds like something you'd like to get your teeth into, then please contact Mark Graham, at this email address: volunteers
Are you interested in conservation, regional tourism development, and working with a bunch of fun volunteers? Have a background or experience in journalism or public relations?
If so, we are looking for a volunteer to help us keep the community engaged and the media informed on what is happening in the Rimutaka Forest Park, with the Trust, our Kiwi Project - and anything else of interest that may be happening.
Activities would involve:
We are looking for one or two people with the appropriate skills.
Contact: Melody 04 564 6213 or 027 452 4982 or melody@rimutakatrust.org.nz