Projects

Walking tracks: None

Getting there: The reserve is not publically accessible.

Our goal is to restore diversity and take the gully back to pre-1840 flora and fauna

Tracks: There is one track on the reserve that takes around 50 minutes to complete.

The Violet Bonnington Reserve (VBR) is a small area of about half a hectare, originally pasture, that was purchased by the Rotorua Branch of Forest & Bird in 2006 in order to provide public access from Paradise Valley Rd to the Mt Ngongotahā Scenic

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The reserve is situated on Waite Rd, approximately 7km north-west of Pirongia in the Waikato.

Kererū, tūī, bellbird, North Island fantail, grey warbler and silvereye.

Rats, stoats and possums destroy our native wildlife. Help to remove pests from the 3100 ha Hibiscus Coast, so native species can flourish.

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Walking tracks: The reserve has one circular track that takes an hour to complete.

The New Zealand Fairy Tern – which has teetered on the brink of extinction since the 1970s – is strug

Tracks: There are three tracks in the 60 hectare reserve, from 20 minutes to an hour and fifteen minutes. The longest track (the blue track) circuits the whole reserve.

In 2002, a group of volunteers from the Rotorua Branch of Forest & Bird, and the Rotorua Botanical Society started a project to remove animal and plant pests from a large part of the Lake Tikitapu Scenic Reserve and the nearby lakeside strip at Lake

Field Reserve is a three hectare reserve of mature coastal and lowland broadleaf forest on the hills behind Paraparaumu growing on sandstone.

The Dunedin, South Otago and Southland branches are joining efforts to conduct large scale conservation in and around Tautuku, in the Catlins.