Ark in the Park New Zealand

About

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Story

We are an unfenced sanctuary currently covering 2100ha. The project’s aim is to restore functioning native ecosystems through pest control and reintroduction of native animals and plants lost from the Waitakere Ranges. Auckland Regional Council’s possum control has allowed the forest vegetation to recover, but restoration of many of the “lost” species” cannot happen unless we bring them back, and protect them with ongoing intensive pest control (especially for rats and mustelids). So far whitehead, robin and kokako have been successfully returned.

Unlike many other “mainland island” projects, Ark in the Park does not have a predator proof fence – instead, ongoing pest control by our volunteers keeps predator numbers low enough to allow survival and breeding of re-introduced as well as original native birds and other biodiversity.