Bird highway takes flight
RNZ journalist Sally Round recently interviewed the Aorangi Restoration Trust, Kohunui Marae Nursery and local landowners about the...
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White Rock Trapping Volunteers Required
The Aorangi Restoration Trust are looking for volunteers to service 89 traps once a month at White Rock.
Protecting Banded Dotterel at White Rock
The Wairarapa’s largest population of banded dotterel is getting a helping hand from a local protection group and an forestry company.
Predator Control in Aorangi Forest
An ambitious predator control programme in and around the Aorangi Forest in the southern Wairarapa is delivering some impressive results.
Tonganui Biodiversity Corridors – Looking Forward to the Past
A tree planting project is underway to establish permanent native forest corridors reconnecting the Aorangi and Remutaka Ranges.
Always a good day in the Aorangi
The Trust had met the day before to finalise our health and safety plan. Joe gave his health and safety briefing to barracking from the...
Two Legendary Landscapes
With renewed interest in the stories relating to Nga Ra o Kupe by the Department of Conservation, it is timely to feature this blog post...
Former inhabitants of the Aorangi
A crevasse in the ground near Martinborough provides a glimpse of the birds and other animals found in prehistoric south-east Wairarapa....
Aorangi Restoration Trust works closely with deerstalkers and community
A great write-up by Predator Free NZ on Chairman Clive Paton, the work of the Aorangi Restoration Trust, its vision, activities, and...
Gecko Sighting
We had our first sighting of gecko in the Aorangi Forest, recorded just before Christmas 2015 by Ella Buckley. It is a forest gecko of...
Age Proves no barrier to conservation efforts
Andy & Chris Corser, with Chris's mum Bettine, 80, were featured recently in the Wairarapa Time-Age for their incredible work in...
DOC Funding Grant Announced
"Aorangi Restoration Trust has received a funding boost of $40,000 from DOC's community fund, allowing the appointment of a part-time...
Washpool to Pararaki
A new coastal trapline - Washpool to Pararaki – was established on Thursday 3 December 2015, with 16 Doc250s and 8 Timms traps at 21...
"Birds sing while 1080 drops"
Victoria University conservation biologist Dr Stephen Hartley and colleague Asher Cook have released findings of research into birdsong...
Message from the Chair
Aorangi Restoration Trust 2014 Review Notes from the Chair, Clive Paton The past twelve months have seen many gains in our quest to...
They're at it Again
Those wonderful 'Undulators' keep popping up. Not only did they gift us some money for the bat recording boxes but the Undulators have...