Restoration Initiatives in Greater Wellington

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Restoration Initiatives in Greater Wellington
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Regional Restoration

• Number of drivers
• DoC, TAs, GW, Trusts, Care-groups, Community,
  NZERN
• Within GW, number of Divisions
• Mainly Environment, Biosecurity, Parks and
  Forests

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Wellington Region
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Care-groups
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Regional Possum Control
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Western Possum Control
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GW Parks and Forests
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Restoration projects

• Te Marua Bush restoration
• Mainland Island restoration operation (MIRO)
• Queen Elizabeth Park - remnant forest restoration
• Queen Elizabeth Park - foredune restoration
• Queen Elizabeth Park - wetland restoration
• Battle Hill wetland restoration
• Cannons Creek valley bush restoration
• Pakuratahi River riparian restoration

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Fish passage reconstruction
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Queen Elizabeth Park

• Dune restoration project
• Intensive pest plant control
• Caregroup - spinifex plantings
• Dune trials

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Boneseed - QE Park
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Lost Layer
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Spinifex planting
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Dune trials
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Back Dune Trials
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East Harbour Regional Park- MIRO
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Terrestrial ratas
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East Harbour Ecological Values

• Mainly lowland beech with some podocarp forest
• Red-flowered mistletoe, over 30 native orchid
  species, giant and banded kokopu
• Birds include falcon, whitehead, tomtit and
  bellbird

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MIRO members
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Operational Areas
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Wainuiomata Mainland Island
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Podocarp forest
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Wainuiomata Vegetation Map
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Birds in the Wainuiomata/Orongorongo WCA
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Rodent/Mustelid Monitoring
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Proposed site