For those that don’t know me I’m Quentin (Pepeha). My father fished these waters. He started the mussel farm. They grew fat feeding off the…
If you’re a possum around Harataunga/Kennedy Bay, watch out, the locals are coming for you. Volunteer and environmental scientist Dr Kate James speaks to Nathan about the humane trapping project Te Ranga Wairua.
It’s been called “the most ambitious conservation project attempted anywhere in the world”— will it actually work? Evan Hamon, a member of the Ngati Porou…
Te Ranga Wairua covers a unique and special piece of the Coromandel peninsula where the native and endemic species are in dire need of protection.…
Te Ranga Wairua envisions using multi-species self-resetting traps with new automated, cloud-based network status and monitoring that minimize labour requirements and optimize trap placement and…
Introduction New Zealand has an amazingly high number of indigenous species which are endemic (found only in New Zealand) – this is a result of…
The Coromandel Ecological Region (ER) includes nine ecological districts (EDs) from the Great and Little Barrier Islands in the north along the length of the…
The Colville Ecological District covers the northernmost portion of the peninsula, Te Ranga Wairua is in the centre of Colville Ecological District (Figure 3). The…
“A natural area containing threatened species or rare types of habitats that make them more important relative to other natural areas without these features.” –…
The section of land for proposed animal pest control is a band which transects the Coromandel Peninsula from east to west. The ecosystems include a…