1 Pukenui Forest 4 Parihaka 7 Mount Manaia

Pukenui Western Hills Forest Charitable Trust do Parihaka Community Landcare carry out pest control Weed Action Whangarei Heads carry out weed control extensive pest control and have introduced kiwi to urban operations on the Parihaka Maunga to help protect to keep habitats suitable for native plants and animals so Whangārei which are now breeding right next to the native species. they can thrive. CBD. Listen out at night to hear kiwi calling. To volunteer: email – [email protected] or visit To volunteer: email – [email protected] email – [email protected] To volunteer: “Parihaka Community Landcare” on Facebook Activity: Walk to the summit of Mount Manaia and Activity: Go exploring the Pukenui Forest walking Activity: Visit Parihaka. Can you spot an eel in the count how many native plant species you can find. Send tracks, take a close-up photo or drawing of something stream? The longfin eel is endemic to and us a photo, drawing or poem of your favourite native plant. you find interesting based on its colour, shape, texture is endangered, you can identify it from a shortfin by the or something else. Send it to us and see if we can guess length of the tail fins. Send us your best longfin eel photo what you’ve found. or drawing.

2 Kiwi North 5 Matakohe Island 8 Reserve

KiwiNorth are excellent ambassadors for our native Friends Of Matakohe-Limestone Island have been Bream Head Conservation Trust carry out extensive species, giving people the opportunity to engage with revegetating the island with native forest. It is a kiwi pest control and have successfully reintroduced kiwi and native reptiles. creche and many native reptiles and insects have been several native species to the reserve, including the very To volunteer: email – [email protected] reintroduced. inquisitive North Island robin/toutouwai. Can you spot one? Activity: Have you seen a native reptile before? Send To volunteer: email – [email protected] us a photo or a drawing. Make a home for lizards like Activity: Visit Matakohe Island and count how many To volunteer: visit www.breamheadtrust.nz the ones at KiwiNorth in your own garden and see who wētā you can spot in the hotels on the island. Or build a Activity: Stay overnight at the Peach Cove hut and moves in. wētā hotel and give our native insect friends a home in listen to the bush come alive at night. Describe or write a your garden. poem based on what you hear.

3 Whangārei Quarry Gardens 6 Tūtūkākā 9 Wildlife Refuge

The community have regenerated the old quarry site Landcare are involved in habitat restoration Coastal Care Trust helps protect the with native forest and cleaned up the stream. This has and pest plant and animal control, they have foredunes and shorebird nesting sites south of Ruakākā created habitat for insects, native birds, bats, eel and reintroduced brown teal ducks/pāteke to Northland’s through active pest control, weeding, and planting. native fish. East Coast and monitor resident populations of North To volunteer: email – [email protected] To volunteer: email – [email protected] Island brown kiwi, grey-faced petrel/ōi and little blue penguin/kororā. Activity: Play your part in dune restoration and Activity: Paint a rock with your favourite native creating safe nesting sites by designing a colourful sign species. Send us a picture and hide it at the Quarry To volunteer: email – [email protected] to let people know to keep to the tracks and stay off the Gardens. How many painted rocks can you find? Activity: Walk to the lighthouse while it’s low tide, can dunes. Send us your design. you spot any bird prints in the sand? Send us a photo or drawing of your favourite native bird.

10 Waipū At home Whangārei About Tern Waipu work in conjunction with the Contact Tiakina Whangārei to learn how you can Department of Conservation to help bring back the tara become a conservation hero in your own backyard Conservation Adventures iti/fairy tern from the brink of extinction. They carry out www.tiakinawhangarei.co.nz behavioural observations, predator and weed control to protect New Zealand’s most endangered breeding bird. To volunteer: email – [email protected] Know before you go: check rules about dogs, track Activity: Take your binoculars to Waipū beach and closures and weather before you head out. see how many different shorebirds you can spot. Build a sand sculpture of a native shorebird. Decorate it using materials you find on or around the beach. Send your photos and artwork to Send us a picture. [email protected] Tūī. Photo: Sid Mosdell (CC BY 2.0) Tūī.

11 Langs Beach Weed Action Piroa-Brynderwyns have undertaken a massive restoration project at the Langs Beach Scenic reserve. Look out for it opposite the pink toilets. To volunteer: email – [email protected] Activity: Become a citizen scientist, use the iNaturalist app to log any interesting plants, bugs, or animals you come across. You might even find a new species! Published by: Department of Conservation Whangārei Office PO Box 842 Whangārei 0140 Te Wiki Tiaki Ao Tūroa 4–12 Mahuru 2021 12 Tangihua Forest August 2021 Conservation Week 4–12 September 2021 Design: Ashley Brown Tangihua Lions Lodge community group undertake pest Take a moment to notice, celebrate, explore, control in a core area of the forest, targeting mustelids, remember, nurture, and protect nature with possums, and rats to help the forest thrive once more. some of our local conservation treasures. To volunteer: visit www.thelionslodge.co.nz Activity: Walk the nature trail and create some “leaf conservationweek.org.nz art” using leaves you find on the track. Send us a photo! Tūtūkākā 6

Pukenui Forest

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Whangārei Quarry 2 Gardens

Kiwi North Matakohe Island 5 Mount Manaia 7 Bream Head Reserve 8

Tangihua Forest Ruakākā Wildlife Refuge 12 9

Waipū 10

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Nature’s wellbeing and our wellbeing are interconnected. When Papatūānuku thrives, we thrive.