The island is experiencing an exciting, large scale and long term transformation. The island is only 30-40 minutes by ferry from downtown Auckland, New Zealand's largest city and is linked by causeway to Rangitoto in the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park. Motutapu and Rangitoto are now pest free islands - please, we need your help to keep it that way.
The Motutapu Restoration Trust is restoring the natural and cultural landscapes of this beautitful island -
"breathing new life into an ancient landform"
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Thursday
15 July 2010
The July meeting of the Motutapu Restoration Trust at Millennium Hotel's the Auckland Copthorne in Quay St.
Chair Christine Fletcher presented Trevor Stones with the inaugural Jim Holdaway Award for outstanding achievement in Conservation.
The following is Christine's address delivered at the Trust meeting to assembled trustees and invited guests:
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 Okay, so you're a group that would like to come over to the island to do a spot of volunteering with us. Fantastic !
Additional dates now available
But here's an idea .... how about bringing your group over on Saturday morning, walk the tracks of Rangitoto and Motutapu, stay overnight on the island, volunteer with us on Sunday and make a real weekend it
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Our weed busting volunteers have just received not one, but two Auckland Regional Weedbusters' awards for 2010.
The awards were presented by Steve Benham from the Department of Conservation to Neil Lorimer, head of the weed control team and members of the Trust's Technical Committee.
The Trust entered and won the Group Weedbusting on Public Land Award for the weed control that is carried out on Motutapu all year round. The panel of five judges, representing four Auckland Councils and the ARC were so impressed with our work that we also won the Overall Weedbusting Excellence Award.
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It's been a year since the first aerial rodent bait drop!
Where are we at with the Pest eradication?
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The massive $3million Pest Eradication programme currently taking place on the islands is the most complex island pest eradication ever attempted any where in the world according to the Department of Conservation
It is being carried out to rid Rangitoto and Motutapu of animal pests that eat birds and insects. The forest will flourish as a result.
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