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Supporting Conservation FOREST & BIRD TOURS SUPPORTING CONSERVATION ECHOES OF GONDWANA DEPARTING FEBRUARY AND MARCH 2021 1 It was a truly remarkable experience and we are very grateful for it. Thank you Mark and Forest & Bird! Inge Bremer and Rolf Mueller-Glodde Footsteps through Conservation Battlegrounds tour October 2020 UNFORGETTABLE LANDSCAPES Our ever-changing country is full of natural spectacles to be enjoyed, challenged, or held in awe. Travel off the beaten track in the company of a small group of up to 15 like-minded people. Together you will experience Aotearoa's incredible wildlife on land and in our oceans. Join us to explore New Zealand’s natural heritage and feel good knowing your tour’s profits will be supporting Forest & Bird’s conservation work! 2 YOUR GUIDE Naturalist and Forest & Bird President Mark Hanger has been leading small-group nature tours throughout New Zealand and Australia for more than 30 years. He has put together this incredible fundraising journey for our supporters. Travel is by comfortable small coach equipped with an excellent nature reference library. Accommodation is in pleasant hotels and lodges with private facilities. A flexible tour itinerary offers multiple start and finish points and different journey lengths. All tour profits go to Forest & Bird’s conservation work. 3 ECHOES OF GONDWANA Travel through awe-inspiring landscapes at the heart of Experience botanical and birdlife wonders of some of the greatest environmental campaigns of the Gondwana forests at Pureora and discover native past 100 years. Meet Forest & Bird’s conservation staff skinks and other rare species on Mana Island. Then and volunteers, who will share some of the challenges explore the ancient forests of the West Coast, including of protecting and restoring Aotearoa’s natural heritage. Paparoa and Ōkārito, with an overnight stay at Lake Visit New Zealand’s oldest marine reserves and Moeraki Wilderness Lodge with conservation icon find out about the recent ground-breaking Gerry McSweeney. A further optional segment takes in battle to save the “Bay of Empty” during the Catlins, Rakiura Stewart Island, hoiho, kiwi Hector’s a guided trip to Motiti Island with Te dolphins, and New Zealand sealions. Atarangi Sayers. 4 FEB 26: Far North marine challenges Mid-morning convene in Whangārei, meet Mark Hanger, Forest & Bird President and your trip leader. We are joined by Dean Baigent-Mercer, Forest & Bird’s Northern conservation advocate and campaigner. Dean will discuss key marine issues with us as we visit coastal areas dear to his heart. Stay Tutukaka two nights. SECTOR 1 FEB 27: Poor Knights Island Marine Reserve – day excursion TE AO O An unforgettable day excursion cruise visiting a very special jewel in the crown of marine protected areas in TE TANGAROA Aotearoa. Visit the Poor Knights Marine Reserve and observe from the boat the unique landscapes of the 5-NIGHTS, DEPARTING 26 FEBRUARY 2021 Poor Knights Nature Reserve (landing is prohibited for members of the public). The surrounding waters are home to a myriad of sub-tropical fish, sponge gardens, huge sea caves, and sub-marine arches. There is ample time to learn of the significance of the life protected here, and to snorkel and/or kayak in the marine reserve waters. Or you can just absorb the atmosphere of one of New Zealand’s most special places. Late afternoon return to Tutukaka. 5 FEB 28: Leigh Marine Reserve This morning drive south to New Zealand’s first marine sanctuary. Learn of its history, preservation, benefits, and the legacy of Dr Bill Ballantine, who was a dearly beloved icon of marine conservation. Time this afternoon to kayak or snorkel in the reserve. Stay Warkworth tonight. MAR 1: Warkworth kauri, Miranda, mangroves, Tauranga Visit a locally protected and managed kauri tract this morning before leaving the region. Travel south through Auckland then via the Miranda coast and to the Bay of Plenty. An afternoon on the coastal fringe. Discuss and view the significance and value of mānawa, the mangrove, with Forest & Bird stalwarts Basil and Ann Graeme. Stay Tauranga two nights. 6 MAR 2: Mōtītī, the Rena wreck, marine issues in the to ground-breaking legislative changes that could see better “Bay of Empty” marine protection for all of New Zealand’s coastal waters. Join Te Atarangi Sayers, Forest & Bird Board member, as he takes us on a physical journey to Mōtītī Island while explaining MAR 3: Aongatete, mangroves the inspiring spiritual and legal journey of his hapū. They fought Meet the Graeme family, founders of Forest & Bird’s Kiwi a long battle to gain awareness, understanding, and finally Conservation Club and staunch supporters of greater protection for the unique waters surrounding Mōtītī, an area that protection for the Kaimai Mamaku forests. Walk in the was put under massive pressure after the MV Rena ran aground Aongatete forest reserve before continuing through to the on the Astrolabe reef, in 2011. The resulting oil spill has been central North Island. For those not continuing on the main called New Zealand’s worst maritime environmental disaster. Echoes of Gondwana trip, your journey will end at lunchtime Te Atarangi will explain how this terrible event ultimately led today in Tauranga. The main group will travel south to Taupō. 7 SECTOR 1 Pricing DEPARTS: Whangārei TE AO O TE ENDS: Tauranga DEPARTURES: 26 February 2021 TANGAROA PRICE: NZD$2,159 per person (5 nights) Inclusions n Services of tour naturalist, Mark Hanger. n Services of Forest & Bird specialists n All tour travel departing from Whangārei and terminating in Tauranga n Three meals daily, with exception of first dinner in Tauranga n All accommodation n Information folio including background ecological information and species lists for areas visited n Poor Knights marine reserve day excursion n Mōtītī or Bay of Plenty day excursion n Goods and Services Tax of 15% n Admission fees where applicable n Contribution to Forest & Bird BOOK THIS TOUR n Add-ons: Single room rate add $NZ430.00 per person and feel good knowing a proportion of your fare supports Forest & Bird 8 MAR 3: Aongatete, mangroves, Taupo SECTOR 2 Meet with the Graeme family, founders of KCC and staunch supporters of greater protection for the Kaimai Mamaku ECHOES OF forests. Walk in the Aongatete forest before continuing GONDWANA through to the central North Island. Stay Taupo tonight. MAR 4: Pureora – the “dinosaur forest” of Gondwana 10-NIGHTS, DEPARTING 3 MARCH 2021 Lush rainforest surrounded the Tongariro Plateau until wholesale forest clearance began with European settlement. Now only relatively small tracts remain. Today we visit one of the finest tracts of podocarp rain forest in the country to study the intricacies and complexities of the predominant forest type in New Zealand. These forests have changed little over 100 million years and are typical of the forest cover of Gondwana. The rimu-dominated bush here is perhaps the finest in the country. Pureora was a flashpoint in the late 1970s and the actions of conservation protesters here paved the way for other significant lowland forests in the North island to be protected. We study the podocarp forest communities in detail today then continue to Whakapapa. 9 MAR 5: Volcanoes, sub-alpine beech forest, whio MAR 6: Mana Island Immediately to the south of Lake Taupō are the three high The steep-sided and flat-topped Mana Island is a distinctive volcanic peaks of Tongariro National Park. This is the original feature of Wellington’s west coast. Despite years of human national park of New Zealandand we spend the morning on the occupation, three rare species clung to salvation on Mana—the slopes of the highest peak, Ruapehu. With laval and/or mud gold-striped gecko, Cook Strait giant wētā, and McGregor’s flows having occurred in recent years off both Ruapehu and skink. Concerted conservation efforts by Forest & Bird and nearby Ngāuruhoe, the vicinity is an excellent one in which others, led to the eradication of mice in 1990 and the planting to study the impact of volcanism on sub-alpine and montane of half a million trees. The island is home to dozens of species vegetation. There will also be an opportunity to seek out the threatened elsewhere in the country, including takahē, endangered whio blue duck while in this region. Afternoon toutouwai North Island robin, korimako bellbird, kākāriki drive south to Wellington. yellow-crowned parakeet, rowi brown kiwi, and pōpokotea whitehead, as well as three translocated lizard species. Join the Friends of Mana Trust as we visit this special island off the Porirua coast. 10 MAR 7: Ferry to Picton, Forest & Bird’s Pelorus bat MAR 9: Denniston plateau, Paparoa National Park recovery project Drive south from Nelson through the Buller Gorge and discover Ferry to South island. Travel via Pelorus bridge to Nelson. the fascinating rare coal ecosystems of the Denniston Plateau. Possible evening visit to Pelorus with the Top of the South Bat You will hear about the major battles conservationists have had Project (yet to be confirmed) Stay Nelson two nights. to protect this site from mining interests. Later continue down the spectacular West Coast. The coastal Paparoa National Park MAR 8: Kahurangi National Park, Mt Arthur was established as a result or prolonged pressure from Forest Travel down the Motueka Valley and to North West Nelson. & Bird, by the likes of conservation stalwarts Craig Potton and The Graham Valley provides the easiest access to Kahurangi Andy Dennis in 1987. Later this afternoon enjoy further coastal National Park. This national park is perhaps the botanically walks through the lush hardwood and nikau forest and at most diverse in the country. Red, silver, black and mountain Punakaiki itself. Stay Punakaiki. beeches predominate and at higher altitude mountain cedar forest appears.
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