Trip to Coromandel!

Came back from Coromandel peninsula after spening 2 weeks up there doing conservation work with the Moehau Enviroment Group. The fist couple of days we went hiking in the bush, setting rat traps and rat number monitring. We also helped to clear areas of pest plants to replace with native plants, did shellfish surveys and went on Eco walks so the coordinators could show us what they have achieved since working in the area. Coromandel is beautiful – the moehou enviroment group are aiming to eliminate foreign species of plants and wildlife, like rats and possums that kill the native species, like the Kiwi. Theya er also aiming to restore the native vegitation, and so we where helping them with this by clearing and re-plating areas (for example clearing Pampus weed, from Europe, and planting native trees instead to re-colonise the area.)

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This entry was posted on Saturday, May 30th, 2009 at 8:52 pm and is filed under New Zealand Nature Program.