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Ark in the Park
Year Started:
2002
Contact Person:
Gillian Wadams
E-mail address:
Group Members:
700
Address:
Cascade Kauri Park, Waitakere Ranges
Ecosystem:
Ark in the Park is a volunteer based collaborative project between Forest and Bird and Auckland Council.
We are an unfenced sanctuary currently covering 2100ha. Our main activities are predator control via a grid of bait stations and traps and reintroduction of native species no longer found in the Ranges. So far these include North Island Robin, Whitehead and Kokako.
Sponsors:
Foundation North, The Trusts Community Foundation and Auckland Zoo.
Affiliates:
Forest and Bird, Auckland Council, Te Kawerau a Maki and DOC.
Group Data
77
Possums killed
915
Stoats killed
39
Ferrets killed
2058