The Kaimai Mamaku forests and catchments cover almost 300,000 hectares across the Bay of Plenty and Waikato and are home to over 500 native species of plants, birds, frogs, bats and invertebrates – but large-scale canopy collapse is a very real threat.
BayTrust is currently co-funding five iwi-hapū project teams, each of whom are undertaking pest and predator control in different areas within the forests. Over the past three years, $300,000 has been granted by BayTrust and a further $25,000 has just been announced for Ngāti Kearoa Ngāti Tuara's ‘Te Whakamaru o Horohoro’ project which is working to protect the long-tailed pekapeka (bat), kākā and kōkako by eradicating feral cats, rats, possums and stoats.
The Kaimai Mamaku Restoration Project team.
