Tiritiri Matangi Island - Wildlife Sanctuary

Come and join us as we travelled to Tiritiri Matangi and on the way passed a number of Navy ships from around the world in Auckland for the NZ Navy's 75th Birthday.
Tiritiri Matangi Island is a wildlife sanctuary and one of New Zealand's most important and exciting conservation projects. It is located 30km north east of central Auckland and just 4km from the end of the Whangaparaoa Peninsula. A hundred and twenty years of farming had seen this 220-hectare island stripped of 94% of its native bush but between 1984 and 1994, volunteers planted between 250,000 and 300,000 trees. The Island is now 60% forested with the remaining 40% left as grassland for species preferring open habitat.
In conjunction with this planting programme, all mammalian predators were eradicated and a number of threatened and endangered bird and reptile species have been successfully introduced, including the flightless takahe, one of the world’s rarest species, and the tuatara. There are few places in New Zealand where you can readily see and walk amongst so many rare species.

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More exposure required for the ultimate care and protection to be forever looked after,projects like this have no money value on them,let us protect what they have for us. And in doing so the circle of life will continue. Timelines etc,this is history/ present and future. Schools have enough land to promote lil sanctuaries on them. They should all have a set amount of Native trees and should be promoted within the education system,kids are stuck indoors these days with devices,take em for a walk outside teachers,the gardens were another treat,need more conservationists and this is one sure way to ensure that. xx