Successful applications 2019
Introduction
View a list of projects that were successful in the DOC Community Fund 2019 funding round.The total amount funded for all regions is $8,132,783 (excluding GST).
| Region | Applicant | Project title | Amount funded (excluding GST) | Outline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern North Island | New Zealand Fairy Tern Charitable Trust | Pest Management of the New Zealand Fairy Tern Nesting Sites and Surrounds | $20,000 | Predator control work at Waipu to protect the New Zealand Fairy Tern from predators. |
| Northern North Island | Integrated Kaipara Harbour Management Group | Conservation Works Gaps Analysis Project for Kaipara Harbour Catchment | $50,000 | Prepare a report on the current restoration initiatives in the Kaipara Catchment to ensure a strategic and coordinated approach to ecological restoration in the area. |
| Northern North Island | Te Iwi o Te Roroa | Possum Control within Te Toa Whenua | $60,725 | Possum control over 1,400 ha to restore the biodiversity in the lower Waipoua River catchment. |
| Northern North Island | Pukenui/Western Hills Forest Charitable Trust | Strengthening our Defence: improving our buffer trapping network around Pukenui Forest, Whangarei | $18,575 | Improve the existing predator control network around the Pukenui/Western Hills Forest to target feral cats, mustelids and rodents. |
| Northern North Island | Kaitiaki Kiwi | Kaitiaki Kiwi Waipoua - Expansion of Management Area | $174,411 | Expanding the predator control network to increase the area of kiwi protection under management in the Waipoua Forest. |
| Northern North Island | Puketi Forest Trust | Oho Mai Puketi | $144,000 | Predator control of introduced predators to protect the existing kokako population and plan for follow up translocations. |
| Northern North Island | Guardians of the Bay of Islands Incorporated | Ipipiri Islands Biodiversity Restoration and Implementation Programme - pest free Project Island Song | $16,080 | Develop a strategic ecological restoration programme for the Ipipiri Islands to guide restoration of the island’s biological communities. |
| Northern North Island | Whangarei Heads Landcare Forum Inc | Whangarei Heads Weed Action Community Alliance | $56,642 | Mobilise and resource the community to stop the spread of invasive weeds and protect the taonga of Mt Manaia, Bream Head, Reotahi and Kauri Mountain. |
| Northern North Island | Te Orewai Whenua Trust | Te Orewai Matauranga-A-Hapu Monitoring Proposal | $20,000 | Host a series of wananaga to develop a value-based assessment framework for the health and wellbeing of freshwater taonga, and monitor the state of the waterways. |
| Northern North Island | Te Runanga o Taumarere ki Rakaumangamanga | Russell State Forest Project | $114,000 | 9 hapu and 6 marae surrounding the Russell State Forest will develop a 20-year forest health plan to establish the health of the forest and sustain it into the future. |
| Northern North Island | Mid North Alliance-Bay of Islands | Te Waka Kaitiaki Whenua | $19,980 | Set up predator control at Mid-North schools and marae to educate and advocate for the protection of native species. |
| Northern North Island | Bay Bush Action Trust | Ngahere Ora - Stage 2: Protecting Opua Forest | $86,000 | Increase biodiversity protection in the Opua State Forest with multi species predator control. Expand over an additional 252 ha of public conservation land and 16 ha adjoining private land and undertake a scientific trial of the effectiveness of the AT220 multispecies resettable trap. |
| Northern North Island | Ngunguru Sandspit Protection Society Incorporated | Ngunguru Sandspit Ecology Restoration Project | $18,658 | Targeting of animal and plant pests to restore the Ngungunru Sandspit’s rare remnant dune ecosystem. |
| Auckland | Windy Hill Rosalie Bay Catchment Trust | Building Biodiversity - Windy Hill Sanctuary | $146,162 | Continuation of a predator control programme and development of a bird monitoring report to sustain conservation gains. |
| Auckland | Little Barrier Island (Hauturu) Supporters' Trust | Abseil Removal of Climbing Asparagus from Cliffs | $18,000 | Remove climbing asparagus from Hauturu's cliffs. |
| Auckland | CUE Haven Community Trust | CUE Haven Community Native Forest Reserve | $18,650 | Develop a biodiversity action plan to inform future development of the site and control pest plants. |
| Auckland | Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society Inc. | South-East Wildlink | $16,958 | Support agencies and rural landowners to protect and restore forest fragments on their properties. |
| Auckland | Leigh Harbour Valley Society | Leigh Harbour Valley Pest Control | $15,014 | Expand predator control and monitoring activity in the Leigh Harbour Valley. |
| Auckland | Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society Inc. | Ark in the Park - Kokako Recovery | $19,500 | Working towards healthy population growth of kokako through banding and an expansion of the predator control programme. |
| Auckland | Pohutukawa Trust New Zealand | Restore the Native Flora and Fauna of Kawau Island | $10,000 | Continuation of the existing predator control programme on Kawau Island. |
| Auckland | Motuihe Trust | Weeds, weeds and weeding | $72,000 | Restore Motuihe Island back to the original flora through the war on weeds programme. |
| Auckland | Professor Richard Bellamy and Dr Karen Colgan | Petrel Project - O'Neill and Waitakere Bays | $20,000 | Maintain and expand the predator control programme to protect the major nesting sites of petrels. |
| Auckland | Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society Inc., Warkworth Area branch | Warkworth Area Forest & Bird Little Blue Penguin/Korora Project | $15,788 | In collaboration with Ngati Manuhiri, create a safe habitat for native birds, especially little penguins and grey-faced petrels, to thrive along the coast from Ti Point to Goat Island. |
| Auckland | Te Matuku Bay Landcare Group | Te Matuku Bay Scenic Reserve Pest Plant Eradication Project | $50,000 | Halt the collapse of primary plant communities in Te Matuku Bay Scenic Reserve by removing pest plants, focusing specifically on moth plant. |
| Auckland | Motu Kaikoura Trust | Motu Kaikoura Eco Management project | $40,000 | Control ship rats and kiore on Motu Kaikoura. |
| Auckland | The Forest Bridge Trust | The Forest Bridge - Hubs Project | $100,000 | Work with local communities and landowners to connect hubs and halos, to help achieve landscape scale protection from the Kaipara Harbour to the Pacific Coast. |
| Auckland | Kotuku Peninsula Charitable Trust | Kotuku Peninsula Sanctuary - Pest Control and Management | $100,000 | Protect and provide a safe habitat for threatened and endemic species through actively controlling pest animal and plant species within the predator-fenced kotuku peninsula. |
| Auckland | North Harbour Custodians | North Harbour Custodians - Rat Control | $30,587 | Rat control on Kawau Island to preserve the native flora, especially the kiwi and small birds which were prolific and have reduced in numbers. |
| Auckland | Mataitai Farm Trust | Ngahere Pest Control | $5,000 | Establish a pest control trap line that will be run by hapu. |
| Auckland | Tapora Land & Coast Care Group | Kia Puawai ai Nga Taonga o Manukapua - Fostering the Birds of Manukapua | $100,000 | Establish a predator control line in Manukapua to eradicate pest animals and restore native fauna to the ecosystems. |
| Auckland | Motutapu Restoration Trust | Motutapu Restoration Project | $20,000 | Fund Coromandel brown kiwi egg incubation costs at Auckland Zoo to enable kiwi chicks to be released on Motutapu. |
| Auckland | Hobsonville Point Secondary School Pest control group | Hobsonville Point Community Pest Control Action | $2,000 | Predator control programme to raise awareness of pest species and increase community participation towards the long-term goal of providing a habitat for native species. |
| Hauraki-Waikato-Taranaki | Whenuakite Kiwi Care Group | Operations Managers | $50,280 | Maintaining the existing 3,500 ha predator control network. |
| Hauraki-Waikato-Taranaki | Parawai School | Rongoa Nga Toi Community Garden | $2,000 | Establish a Rongoa and Nga Toi garden at Parawai school to discover/re-establish the significance of the local wetlands, healing resource trees for the tangata whenua and whole community. |
| Hauraki-Waikato-Taranaki | Pukorokoro Miranda Naturalists Trusts (PMNT) | Restoring the Mauri of the Robert Findlay Reserve | $37,356 | Restoration planting to bring a functioning, biodiverse, indigenous community to the Robert Findlay Wildlife Reserve. |
| Hauraki-Waikato-Taranaki | East Taranaki Environment Trust | Experiencing Purangi: Incorporating Purangi Kiwi and Purangi Kokako | $55,000 | Maintain the existing trap network in the Purangi, Matau and Okoki area. |
| Hauraki-Waikato-Taranaki | Te Runanga o Ngati Mutunga | Taramoukou Ki Uta - Taramoukou Restoration Project | $18,000 | Cutting of tracks to support the predator control programme in the Taramoukou Conservation Area to restore the mauri of the Ngati Mutunga forest and wetland area. |
| Hauraki-Waikato-Taranaki | Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari | Xcluder® Fence Maintenance and Management | $183,746 | Maintain and manage the Xcluder® fence encompassing Maungatautari to ensure that the sanctuary remains pest free. |
| Hauraki-Waikato-Taranaki | Tiaki Te Mauri o Parininihi Trust | Parininihi Sustainability Project | $94,000 | Manage, maintain and improve the pest control infrastructure at Parininihi to support the reestablishment of the kokako population in Taranaki. |
| Hauraki-Waikato-Taranaki | Predator Free Whiriwhiri | Predator Free Whiriwhiri | $9,035 | Predator control programme to protect the significant natural area valleys of Whiriwhiri, Karioitahi, Maioro and Otaua. |
| Hauraki-Waikato-Taranaki | Taranaki Kiwi Trust | Community Kiwi Protection | $32,640 | Maintain and set up kiwi focussed trapping networks in suitable habitat. |
| Hauraki-Waikato-Taranaki | Wild for Taranaki | Building and connecting Regional Biodiversity Hubs: Wild for Taranaki | $43,000 | Run coordinated fundraising campaigns cross-regionally and host a regional biodiversity forum. |
| Hauraki-Waikato-Taranaki | Pirongia Te Aroaro o Kahu Restoration Society | Re-establishing Kokako on Mt Pirongia | $46,230 | Re-establish a self-sustaining population of North Island kokako on Mt Pirongia, including those with Pirongia genes. Monitoring and predator control will be undertaken. |
| Hauraki-Waikato-Taranaki | Pirongia Te Aroaro o Kahu Restoration Society | Okahukura Kokako Protection | $35,563 | Controlling pests at Okahukura is a critical cog of connectivity for kokako subpopulations in Pureora Forest. |
| Hauraki-Waikato-Taranaki | Mahakirau Forest Estate Society Incorporated | Mahakirau Forest Endangered Species Protection Project | $58,099 | Intensified and enhanced predator control towards the 2021 goal of sustained, near zero predators, in a mainland forest sanctuary. |
| Hauraki-Waikato-Taranaki | Opoutere Ratepayers & Residents Assoc Inc (ORRA) | Opoutere Ecology - Opoutere Bird Saver | $14,080 | Predator and plant pest control to protect Opoutere’s unique natural environment, ensuring the survival of endangered fauna such as New Zealand dotterel, banded rail and kaka. |
| Hauraki-Waikato-Taranaki | Western Firth Catchment Group Trust | Forest to Firth Catchment Management | $50,000 | Planting at Wharau and Waitakaruru catchments. |
| Hauraki-Waikato-Taranaki | Moehau Environment Group | MEG's Journey of the Birds | $63,183 | Predator and possum control as part of Moehau Environment Group’s ongoing large-scale biodiversity protection work across the northern Coromandel. |
| Hauraki-Waikato-Taranaki | Taharoa A 7A 2A Trading as Tahaaroa Lakes Trust | Fencing of the western boundaries of Lakes Rotoroa, Numiti and Tahaaroa | $28,000 | Fence marginal areas along the western boundaries of Lake Rotoroa, Numiti and Tahaaroa. |
| Central North Island | Uretara Estuary Managers | Katikati Hills to Ocean | $19,250 | Remove or mitigate identified migration barriers for galaxiid fish species in the four streams in and around Katikati township. |
| Central North Island | Uretara Estuary Managers | Maire Tawake Recovery Project | $9,600 | Protect and enhance a remnant population of swamp maire in the Uretara Estuary through the collection of seeds, raising of seedlings and planting. |
| Central North Island | Progress Castlecliff Coast Care Group | Castlecliff Coastal Restoration Project | $15,000 | Improve habitat and biodiversity in the Castlecliff Coastal Reserve through replacement of invasive weed species with eco-sourced native plants endemic to the region. |
| Central North Island | Ngamanawa Incorporation | Nga Wai Whakaihi na o Tupuna (The waters revered by our ancestors) | $54,500 | Eradicate wilding pines in Ngamanawa native forest area and work towards taking over pest control operations in the Opuiaki Conservation Area. |
| Central North Island | Ohiwa Headland Sanctuary Trust | Ohiwa Headland Sanctuary | $29,113 | Eradicate animal predators across the Ohiwa Headland in order to restore the natural character of the area and create a sanctuary where native species flourish. |
| Central North Island | Forest Lifeforce Restoration Trust | Pohokura Trapping Network Extension | $21,300 | Extend mustelid trapping in Pohokura to better protect released North Island brown kiwi as well as whio and kaka. |
| Central North Island | Upokorehe Iwi | Upokorehe Kiwi Project | $42,986 | Predator control and kiwi management to protect and monitor health of a kiwi population in the Waiotahi Scenic Reserve. |
| Central North Island | Te Kura Mana Maori o Whangaparaoa | Ko Tihirau te Maunga | $15,420 | Implement a pest eradication strategy, initially focusing on mustelids, rats and possums, in order to help restore the environment of Tihirau to its natural state. |
| Central North Island | Michael Richardson on behalf of Bike Taupo | Great Lake Trail (GLT) trapping line and predator control - Stage 1 | $19,239 | Develop a new trap network along Lake Taupo to help maintain predator control measures previously undertaken, encourage existing track users to get involved in predator control projects and get existing trappers to make use of the tracks. |
| Central North Island | Predator Free Okere Falls | Predator Free Okere Falls | $13,972 | Possum, rat and stoat control in the Okere Falls Scenic Reserve and Lake Rotoiti Recreation Reserve, working towards a predator free Okere Falls. |
| Central North Island | Kaharoa Kokako Trust | Kaharoa Conservation Area Pest Control 2019 - 2021 | $33,500 | Vertebrate Pest Control for years 2019 - 2021 in the Kaharoa Conservation Area. |
| Central North Island | Te Runanga o Ngati Kea Ngati Tuara Charitable Trust | Conservation of Horohoro Maunga - Bait Station Trial | $18,897 | Increase the capacity of Ngati Kearoa Ngati Tuara to undertake pest control on Horohoro maunga by undertaking a bait station trial project and gathering more robust predator monitoring data. |
| Central North Island | Ruawahia 2B Trust (Ngati Rangitihi) | Continued control of wilding conifers/ecological weeds on Ruawahia 2B land and the Tarawera scenic reserve (Mount Tarawera) | $170,000 | Continuation of the removal of wilding conifers and other ecological weed species from Mount Tarawera to enable the restoration of the vitality of life, the mauri, the wairua, mana and oranga of the Maunga. |
| Central North Island | Uenuku Charitable Trust (UCT) | Pokaka Whio Protection and Restoration Pilot Programme | $140,000 | Support whio recovery in the Makatote and Manganui-o-te-Ao rivers through establishing a network of traps and drafting a management plan. This work will form part of the Pokaka Eco Sanctuary planned by Te Korowai o Wainuiarua with the support of Ruapehu District Council and partners. |
| Central North Island | Tripe Trustees | Bettie Tripe Reserve Native Tree Planting | $13,125 | Plant 1,500 natives to extend the existing native stand within the Bettie Tripe Reserve . This will further protect the Mangatipona Stream that runs through the Reserve. |
| Central North Island | Whakatane Kiwi Trust | An Integrated Community Predator and Pest Control Project for the Whakatane Kiwi Reserves | $18,300 | Expand predator control and monitoring to reduce the risk to kiwi from stoats, feral cats, ferrets and dogs in the Whakatane area. |
| Central North Island | Temanea and Takutaimoana Kauika-Stevens Whanau Trust | Pourua Pest Eradication Project | $127,936 | Eradicate known pests and plant native seedlings to create a healthy native habitat for bird life in Pourua. |
| Central North Island | Kids Greening Taupo | Kids Greening Taupo | $30,000 | Connect kindergartens and schools of Taupo to work together towards a shared environmental goal. Students lead restoration projects which offer many learning experiences outside of the classroom, including participation on a Student Leadership Team. |
| Central North Island | Ngati Whakahemo | Establishing an Aviary for Bird care in Pukehina Rohe | $8,300 | Training of a bird carer and establishment of the only aviary on the coastal area of Maketu, Pukehina, Matata and inland to Te Puke. |
| Lower North Island | Whangawehi Catchment Management Group Inc. | Mangatupae Restoration Project | $20,000 | Help retire the upper reaches of the Mangatupae stream through retirement of one bush block . |
| Lower North Island | Waikanae Estuary Care Group | Restoration of the Waikanae Estuary Scientific Reserve Continuation Project | $19,708 | Restoration of the Waikanae Estuary Scientific Reserve through planting of native plants, expanding and updating the nursery, investing in weed clearing power devices and small sprayers, and training volunteers in their safe use. |
| Lower North Island | Whareroa Guardians Community Trust Inc. | Whareroa Farm Reserve Ecosystem Restoration - Blackberry Eradication Project | $15,000 | Long-term control of extensive blackberry that is impacting on riparian restoration and threatening native forest with high biodiversity value on Whareroa Farm Reserve. |
| Lower North Island | Upper Hutt Branch, Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society | Old Man's Beard Control, Western Escarpment, Upper Hutt | $18,224 | Continuing the control of Old Man's Beard on Upper Hutt's western green belt, including Trentham Scenic Reserve (original podocarp/hardwood/beech forest) and other areas of strong native reversion. |
| Lower North Island | Friends of Baring Head Charitable Trust | Restoration of Threatened Ecosystems at Baring Head | $34,325 | Restoration of the unique and nationally important freshwater and coastal ecosystems at Baring Head to improve the habitats of rare and threatened species of flora and fauna, including invertebrates, riverine turfs, and native fishes. |
| Lower North Island | Milson Scout Troop | Northern Manawatu Gorge Predator Control | $10,600 | Introduce youth to the indigenous forests of the Northern Manawatu Gorge by providing the opportunity to lead a predator control project. |
| Lower North Island | Whinray Ecological Charitable Trust | Whinray Scenic Reserve Species Protection | $97,893 | Protect over 18 endemic species within 430 ha of pristine podocarp DOC Scenic Reserve and throughout 600 ha of private land. Pest control to protect species such as brown kiwi, weka, Hochstetter's frog, falcon, striped skink, whio, long-tailed bat, green gecko, rifleman, whitehead and robin. |
| Lower North Island | Holdsworth Restoration Trust | Atiwhakatu Trapping Project | $50,000 | Trapping to control rats within an area of approximately 1,000 ha of the Tararua Forest Park around Donnelly Flat, Mt. Holdsworth, with the long-term goal of returning North Island Robin to this protected area. |
| Lower North Island | Kapiti Coast Biodiversity Project | Kapiti Mainland Island Lizard Protection Fence Feasibility Study | $13,900 | Feasibility study for building a predator proof fence in order to protect and grow lizard populations on the Kapiti coast. |
| Lower North Island | Catherine Mary Thomas | Taupeka Revegetation Project | $15,000 | Purchase and plant Chatham Island native trees at a private revegetation site on the northern coast of Chatham Island. |
| Lower North Island | Hawke's Bay Biodiversity Foundation | Nga Pekapeka o Tamatea: Protecting and Enhancing Long-Tailed Bat Population in Central Hawke's Bay | $53,690 | Find roosting sites of long-tailed bats at two locations in the central Hawke’s Bay: Makaretu/ Ashely Clinton and Tikokino / Gwavas, which can then be targeted for protection. |
| Lower North Island | Remutaka Conservation Trust | 2019/20 Mast Event Outcome Monitoring, and Evaluation of the Impact on the Remutaka Forest Kiwi | $10,700 | Monitor the impact of the mast event on the Remutaka forest kiwi population and use this data (and previous mast data - 2014) to inform decisions on future management of the population. |
| Lower North Island | Hans Rook | Ahuriri Estuary Bittern Habitat Restoration Project | $4,800 | Ongoing predator control to protect the threatened species in the Ahuriri Estuary particularly the critically endangered matuku/Australasian bittern. |
| Lower North Island | Te Matarae Family Trust | Lake Huro and Te Whanga Lagoon Corridor | $50,695 | Protect Chatham Island forest remnants on the Lake Huro north-east shore and Te Whanga Lagoons western shore. Fencing off this area will ensure that all water frontage on Te Matarae farm will be protected from livestock for native regeneration and planting. |
| Lower North Island | Sustainable Wairarapa Incorporated | Castlepoint Lizard Survey Project | $4,700 | Seeking to further understand the present conservation status of the Wairarapa’s herpetofauna by surveying what appears to be a favourable coastal habitat at Castlepoint. |
| Lower North Island | Pahnui Station | Pukenui Wetlands Restoration Project | $66,101 | Fence off the existing wetlands in the Pukenui wetland ecosystem and reinstate the connectivity between them. |
| Lower North Island | Te Poho o Rawiri Marae Trust | Whaia Titirangi | $52,281 | Grow the Whaia Titirangi programme to include one new cadet as well as providing training and equipment for new cadets. Extend pest management and kaitiakitanga to more areas of the Titirangi maunga which currently do not receive any treatment due to a lack of resources. |
| Lower North Island | Hohepa Services Limited | Te Whanganui-A-Orutu (Ahuriri Estuary) Environmental Enhancement Plan | $12,000 | Develop and deliver a robust and sustainable pest management strategy in order to produce a predator-free habitat for the Ahuriri Estuary wetland. Initiate a sustainable predator protection template for the entire Te Whanganui-A-Orutu system. |
| Lower North Island | Hawke's Bay Biodiversity Trust | Protection and Restoration of Two Acutely Threatened Kahikatea Wetlands - Central Hawkes Bay. | $37,200 | Secure, protect and restore two acutely threatened Kahikatea wetlands in Central Hawkes Bay (Orea Swamp and Omakere). With less than 2% of wetlands left in Hawke's Bay, this project is a timely call to arms for wetland restoration. |
| Lower North Island | Ruahine Whio Protection Trust | Ruahine Whio Protection | $63,646 | Continue the volunteer led predator control to protect whio and kiwi in the Ruahine Range. Over 2,000 volunteers manage predator traps within the Ruahine Forest Park, on iwi land, and private farmland. |
| Lower North Island | Hokotehi Moriori Trust | Towards a Predator Free Chatham Islands | $9,000 | Conduct a series of trials to reduce predators in the north-east region of the main Chatham Island as a precursor to achieving a predator free environment. |
| Lower North Island | Rongomaiwahine Iwi Trust | Mahia Peninsula Coastline Biodiversity Project | $33,032 | Targeted predator control at the southernmost coast of Mahia peninsula, to protect endemic coastal species, including the critically endangered shore plover, crossing from nearby Waikawa (Portland Island) to the mainland. |
| Lower North Island | Te Kauru (Eastern) Manawatu River Hapu Collective - Coming under Rangitane o Tamaki nui a Rua Inc. | Hou Totara-Whakapiki me te Matauranga | $13,960 | Support weed eradication and matauranga to further restore the ecosystem and share the history of these sites which are significant to the whanau and hapu. Hou Totara has been progressively restoring and increasing the biodiversity along the Manawatu River and the Hori Herehere reserve. |
| Lower North Island | Ngati Pahauwera Development Trust | Ngati Pahauwera Reserves Assessment | $17,000 | Assess sites for key ecological and biodiversity values, management opportunities and priorities based on the existing biodiversity strategy for Ngati Pahauwere reserves. |
| Lower North Island | Capital Kiwi | Capital Kiwi | $29,600 | Deploy and service the monitoring system required to enable the establishment of a sustainable brown kiwi population in the hill country west of Wellington and south of Porirua. |
| Lower North Island | Society for the Resilience and Engagement of the Community of Ashhurst & Pohangina, Inc. (RECAP) | TRAP - "Trapping Regional Ashhurst Pohangina" as a RECAP initiative of "Manawatu River Source to Sea". | $23,613 | Utilise the local community in a whole-of-catchment pest control initiative to enhance biodiversity in the Pohangina River catchment. |
| Lower North Island | Cape Sanctuary | Maire Raunui Protection Project | $7,840 | Protect and enhance one of the largest remnants of coastal forest in Hawke’s Bay by monitoring for species abundance and pest incursion. |
| Lower North Island | Sally Pearce | Te One Bush Restoration Project | $4,325 | Continued restoration of the Te One bush remnant through control of sycamore |
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| Lower North Island | Wairoa Community Ngahere Nursery Inc | Wairoa Community Ngahere Nursery Expansion | $5,520 | Expand the nursery to contribute towards the goal of producing 20,000 plants per year. |
| Lower North Island | Te Puna Limited | Te Huringa o Maungarongo | $11,849 | Clear identified exotic trees and convert into mulch for use in riparian planting of indigenous tree species within Maungarongo. Te Maungarongo o Te Kooti Rkirangi Recreation Reserve is an extremely rare ecological habitat for indigenous flora and fauna on the East Coast Tairawhiti region. |
| Lower North Island | Robert and Jan Holmes | Holmes Family Nature Corridor | $37,000 | Provide a substantial bush area in the centre of the Chatham Island for bird life to have safe, direct access to move north and populate other areas. This will be achieved through fencing off access from livestock. |
| Northern South Island | Friends of Rotoiti | Friends of Rotoiti Trap Network Upgrade | $26,444 | Continue to service and upgrade a trap network in the Nelson Lakes area in support of the Rotoiti Nature Recovery Project, and trap predators in the St Arnaud township. |
| Northern South Island | Friends of Cobb | Predator Control and Wildlife Monitoring Cobb Valley Area - Kahurangi National Park | $19,900 | Manage an existing network of 450 stoat traps set out to reduce the impact of mustelids over an area of approximately 8,000ha centred on the Cobb valley. Monitor rock wren, kea, kaka, whio and kakariki in the area. |
| Northern South Island | Takaka Hill Biodiversity Group | Takaka Hill Pest Plant Management Programme 2019-2050 | $20,000 | Restore Takaka Hill ecosystems by controlling invasive weeds and creating native habitat corridors between Abel Tasman and Kahurangi National Parks. |
| Northern South Island | Kaipupu Point Mainland Island Society | Kaipupu Wildlife Sanctuary | $112,872 | Replace existing traps and maintain six monitoring lines across the Kaipupu Wildlife Sanctuary, a 40ha mainland island sanctuary. |
| Northern South Island | Farewell-Wharariki Health Post Nature Trust | Habitat Restoration and Predator Control in High Priority Areas of Farewell Spit - Wharariki | $59,200 | Replant native species in two main zones (Wharariki Stream and Wetland) along with the expansion of existing predator control lines to cover these areas. |
| Northern South Island | Puhi Peaks Station, Nicky McArthur Family Trust | Puhi Peaks Nature Reserve, Shearwater Stream Colony, Hutton's Shearwater /Titi Population Estimate | $28,596 | Hutton's shearwater/Titi population survey. A colony visit post Kaikoura earthquake (2016) indicated substantial colony habitat loss and very poor breeding productivity. The survey will assess these observations with the results helping to inform future management decisions. |
| Northern South Island | Mana Cruising Club/Friends of Pickersgill Island | Matapara/Pickersgill Island Restoration Project | $20,000 | Restore the Pickersgill Island (Marlborough Sounds) ecosystem by removing invasive ship rats using A24 automatic traps. The Mana Cruising Club/Friends of Pickersgill Island group will then service the traps twice per year. |
| Northern South Island | Kim and Judith Rowe Family Trust | Rowe Block Restoration Project | $124,140 | Undertake weed control in an alluvial forest remnant in the Moutere Ecological district. Eradicate hawthorn and old man's beard and provide sustained control of remaining weed species. |
| Northern South Island | Friends of Hanson Winter Reserve | Restoration of the Hanson Winter Reserve | $6,600 | Purchase and install traps to carry out predator control (mustelids, possums and rats), and undertake weed control (Darwin’s barberry, hawthorn, old man's beard) over the 11ha project area. |
| Northern South Island | Te Whanau Hou Grovetown Lagoon Inc (the Society) | Te Whanau Hou Grovetown Lagoon | $18,000 | Restore the Grovetown Lagoon to enhance the habitat for fish and bird life, and to enable the gathering of food and encourage recreational uses. |
| Northern South Island | The Marlborough Sounds Restoration Trust | Working with Communities to Build Ecological Resilience in the Marlborough Sounds. | $9,300 | Harness the enthusiasm of local landowners to improve habitat for native wildlife in the Marlborough Sounds through improved predator control. The Trust will trial a subscription-based model for funding sustainable pest control. |
| Northern South Island | Marlborough Sounds Restoration Trust | Wilding Pine Control in the Marlborough Sounds 2019-20. | $91,081 | Carry out wilding pine control in the outer Queen Charlotte Sound, outer Pelorus Sound and on D'Urville Island in the 2019-20 season. |
| Northern South Island | Royal Forest & Bird Protection Society of NZ Inc | Te Hoiere Bat Recovery Project | $17,860 | Protect the habitat of the long-tailed bat/pekapeka by expanding the predator control network in the Pelorus catchment. |
| Northern South Island | Project De-Vine Trust in partnership with Tasman Environmental Trust | Invasive Weed Management Abel Tasman National Park Southern Halo MU-H – Riwaka River to Marahau | $159,730 | Prevent the spread of old man's beard, banana passion vine, Douglas fir and other invasive weeds into Abel Tasman National Park. |
| Northern South Island | Tasman Environmental Trust | Farmers for Whio | $71,253 | Install and maintain a landowner supported trap network to control mustelids to assist with whio protection. This will also act as a halo to predator control in Kahurangi National Park. |
| Northern South Island | Kaikoura Ocean Research Institute Inc. (KORI) | Abundance and Distribution of Little Penguins Along the Wider Kaikoura Coastline | $8,600 | Conduct surveys for little penguins along the Kaikoura coastline from Waipapa Bay to the Conway River. Understand little penguin abundance and distribution so that actions may be taken to protect them. |
| Eastern South Island | Sian's Bush Block | Sian's Bush Block | $7,161 | Bring back native plant and bird life and teach local youth how to trap pests and identify native birds and plants. Long-term goal of handing over the project to the community. |
| Eastern South Island | Arthur's Pass Wildlife Trust | Arthur's Pass Predator Free | $79,040 | Expand the current trapping programme in terms of number of traps and frequency of trap checking to enable native wildlife to flourish in Arthur's Pass National Park. |
| Eastern South Island | Orari River Protection Group | Orari River Gorge Trapping Project | $2,673 | Continue the successful trapping and native vegetation regeneration project in the Orari Gorge. |
| Eastern South Island | Working Waters Trust | Project Keep our Kowaro | $12,900 | Continue the successful restoration of a healthy kowaro (Canterbury mudfish) population to Tuhaitara Coastal Park, North Canterbury. |
| Eastern South Island | North Canterbury Branch of the New Zealand Deer Stalkers Association (NZDA) | Lewis River Good Nature A12 Possum Trap Line | $3,609 | Supplement the current stoat trap line with possum traps to further reduce the predator burden on the bird population. |
| Eastern South Island | Banks Peninsula Conservation Trust | Pest Free Banks Peninsula | $155,000 | Make Banks Peninsula effectively pest free by 2050. The primary outcome is to protect and enhance the Peninsula’s unique native habitats and species. |
| Eastern South Island | Coastal Restoration Trust of New Zealand in collaboration Te Kohaka o Tuhaitara Trust | Restoration of a Native Forest Coastal Sequence, Tuhaitara Coastal Park, North Canterbury | $170,812 | Set up a demonstration ‘restored native coastal forest sequence’ that was typical of north Canterbury. Replace logged pines and marginal pasture with foredunes of sandbinders, mid-zone coastal shrublands, wetlands and lagoons, and landward coastal podocarp forest. |
| Eastern South Island | Predator Free Aoraki | Predator Free Aoraki - Alpine Trapping Establishment | $8,900 | Establish and maintain new traplines in the alpine zone of Aoraki Mount Cook National Park to protect indigenous alpine birds, especially tuke/rock wren, from predation from introduced mustelids. |
| Eastern South Island | Conservation Volunteers New Zealand | Canterbury and West Coast Wasp Wipeout Extension programme | $50,060 | Extend the successful wasp control operations in Nelson/Tasman areas - and the Canterbury region. The Vespula wasp species have a significant impact on endemic biodiversity. |
| Western South Island | Buller Conservation Volunteers Trust | Tauranga Ko Matarae Restoration Project | $49,424 | Restore the land-based ecosystem on the Tauranga Bay Headland to enhance the biodiversity of the area. This will be done through planting native plants as well as predator and weed control. |
| Western South Island | Buller Conservation Volunteers Trust | Orowaiti River Mouth Ecosystem Restoration Project | $19,335 | Revegetate a 50-metre strip covering 9.1ha on the Orowaiti estuary, restore land-based ecosystem for weka, and other species, and enhance the tidal estuary ecosystem - to create a buffer between pastoral land and estuary to inhibit nutrient run-off. Pest animal and weed control will be carried out. |
| Western South Island | Okarito Community Association | Okarito Lagoon Predator Control Programme | $30,000 | Maintain near predator-free status of coastal forests and wetlands of Okarito Lagoon (no resident possums, rats or stoats). Also maintain sustained control over the eastern side of the lagoon and Okarito village to complement DOC predator control in the Okarito rowi sanctuary. |
| Western South Island | West Coast Penguin Trust | Thriving Seabirds along a Thriving Coast | $176,346 | Conserve penguins and other threatened seabirds on the West and better understand threats, both on land and at sea, so that practical actions can be taken. Continuation of predator trapping and developing and expanding education and awareness initiatives so that the behaviours of the community support the conservation of these species. |
| Western South Island | Coast Road Dawn Chorus | Landscape Control of Stoats along State Highway 6 of the Barrytown Flats | $27,042 | Install and manage an 18.5km stoat trapline along State Highway 6 with stoat/rat traps at 100m intervals. Help protect native birds in adjoining public conservation land, privately owned native bush, agricultural land and the coastal strip. |
| Western South Island | Glacier Valley Eco Tours Ltd | Project Early Bird | $19,906 | Install approximately 210 DOC200 traps (over 3 years) around Lake Gault in Fox Glacier. Reduce predation on kiwi chicks by decreasing the predators in this area. This will also lead to an increase in other bird life, especially the fernbird. |
| Western South Island | Ross Community Society Inc (RCS) | Ross Water and Bird Sanctuary | $17,334 | Set up a network of mixed-use trapping tracks in the Jones Creek catchment area and install traps to target possums, rats and stoats. Ross youth will be involved in these activities. |
| Western South Island | Mokihinui-Lyell Backcountry Trust (MLBT) | Mokihinui-Lyell Biodiversity Enhancement Project | $90,325 | Focus on predator and weed control efforts along The Old Ghost Road covering land recently added to the Kahurangi National Park. |
| Western South Island | South Westland Area School (SWAS) | South Westland Area School revegetation | $14,940 | Revegetate 'surplus' areas of the school grounds that are currently mown or just rough grassed. Areas will be retired and planted with native plants. Most of the planting and nursery activity will be undertaken by students |
| Western South Island | Conservation Volunteers NZ | Hokitika Nursery and Wetland Restoration Project | $95,290 | Collaborative project to undertake a program of weed control, earth moving and native planting that contributes to the enhancement of wading bird and inanga habitat in tidal areas at Wadeson Island. |
| Western South Island | The Paparoa Wildlife Trust | Roaring Meg Predator Control Project | $84,050 | Maintain and expand existing predator control network in south-eastern Paparoa. |
| Western South Island | David Moore | Predator Free 3408B | $4,547 | Predator trapping to wipe out rats and stoats from 4ha of West Coast bush to protect native birds and regenerating forest. |
| Southern South Island | Kelvin Peninsula Community Association (KPCA) Pest Control Group | KPCA Pest Busters Team - Area Extension | $2,500 | Install traps in a new 3km trapline in Deerpark Heights that will run in parallel to the existing lakeside line. |
| Southern South Island | Mamaku Point Conservation Trust | Additional Traps and Celium Nodes | $14,555 | Add 90 new Celium nodes, plus an additional Celium mini hub to the Trust’s remote monitoring network, so that all traps can be cleared quickly once activated. 50 DOC 200 full stainless traps to be added to existing bait lines and replace old traps. |
| Southern South Island | Queenstown Hill Trapping | Queenstown Hill Predator Trapping | $6,551 | Help conserve the biodiversity of Queenstown Hill by identifying then trapping predators. |
| Southern South Island | Routeburn Dart Wildlife Trust | Greenstone Road (Kinloch to Elfin Bay) Trap Line | $19,925 | Target predators (hedgehogs) that are advancing up the west and east sides of Lake Wakatipu and stop them getting into the valleys north of the lake. This new trapline will be to the south of Kinloch and will help protect the west side of the lake. |
| Southern South Island | Rakiura Maori Lands Trust | The Neck Restoration Project: Animal Pest Control | $156,600 | Perform systematic pest control at The Neck (Stewart Island) to reduce predation of vulnerable native bird species, increase the abundance and diversity of flora vulnerable to rat and deer browse and reduce the risk of rat migration to Ulva Island. |
| Southern South Island | Pomona Island Charitable Trust | Protecting Kea, Kiwi, and Volunteers - Equipment Upgrade Project | $17,816 | Kea-proof traps on Pomona and Rona Island and the adjacent mainland to minimise the risk of kea deaths; protect the health and safety of volunteers through purchase of new radios and batteries; and protect kiwi through the purchase of cameras to detect pest species. |
| Southern South Island | New Zealand National Parks and Conservation Foundation | Freeman Burn Valleys Project | $81,500 | Install 360 traps to establish predator control the length of the Freeman Burn from Lake Manapouri to Lake Minerva . |
| Southern South Island | Fiordland Trails Trust | Weed Control Adjacent to Lake2Lake Trail | $20,000 | Continue the control of invasive weed species (Darwin's barberry and Cotoneaster) at Manapouri and at the Te Anau end of the Lake2Lake Trail. |
| Southern South Island | Fiordland Conservation Trust | Conservation Connections | $12,275 | Improve collaboration between community conservation groups in Fiordland. Develop active relationships with groups and explore how working better together can lead to a more integrated and effective approach to biodiversity conservation in the region. |
| Southern South Island | The Diamond Lakes Conservation Trust | Great Diamond Lake Predator Control | $14,247 | Extend trap lines, purchase bait and perform trap maintenance and/or trap replacement. |
| Southern South Island | Big Bay Awarua Conservation Trust | Big Bay Awarua Conservation Project | $19,025 | Predator control over 1,000 ha at Big Bay, South Westland. |
| Southern South Island | Hollyford Conservation Trust - Te Roopu Manaaki o Whakatipu Waita | Hollyford Conservation Project 2020/2022 - monitoring and predator control operations | $133,000 | Monitor and control rodents, stoats and possums to enable translocations of native species previously found in the area, and monitor native species to measure progress in order to provide ecological restoration within a 2,600 ha project area in the Lower Hollyford Valley. |
| Southern South Island | Mohiki Trust | Stage 3 - Reforestation Richards Beach Cromwell | $8,424 | Remove exotic weeds from within a 4.5 ha site at Richards Beach, Lake Dunstan and re-plant with native plants. |
| Southern South Island | Quarantine Island Kamau Taurua Community Inc (QIKTC) | Protecting and Enhancing Biodiversity on Quarantine Island Kamau Taurua | $19,850 | Protect, learn about, and enhance the island’s biodiversity through revegetation, weed and pest control. The remnant forest, regenerating bush and birds, insects and lizards on the Island are threatened by weeds, rats and mice. |
| Southern South Island | The Mohua Charitable Trust | Seabird Restoration on Coal Island/ Te Puka-Hereka Preservation Inlet, Fiordland | $8,530 | Re-introduction of several species of relict and at-risk seabirds to Coal Island/ Te Puka-Hereka in Fiordland by anchoring them to the island via sound systems. |
| Southern South Island | The Mohua Charitable Trust | Translocation of tieke (South Island saddleback) to Coal Island/ Te Puka-Hereka in Preservation Inlet, Fiordland | $24,705 | Translocate endangered tieke (South Island Saddleback) to Coal Island/ Te Puka - Hereka, providing further security for this threatened species. |
| Southern South Island | Te Nohoaka o Tukiauau/Sinclair Wetlands Trust | Kaitiakitanga, no Place for Weeds and Pests at Te Nohoaka o Tukiauau | $219,000 | Reduce invasive weeds and pests that adversely affect wetland biodiversity. Crucial component in restoring this 315ha wetland and helps empower mana whenua to exercise kaitiakitanga over the wahi taonga and the taonga that live at Te Nohoaka o Tukiauau/Sinclair Wetlands. |
| Southern South Island | Friends of Tucker Beach Wildlife Management Reserve Society | Native Plant Restoration | $20,000 | Restore indigenous biodiversity through native planting in the Tucker Beach Wildlife Management Reserve. |
| Southern South Island | Tomahawk Smaills Beachcare Trust (TSBT) | Tomahawk Smaills Restoration Project | $19,500 | Restore the habitat and biodiversity of the active sand dune ecosystem in and around the Tomahawk Smaills beaches. The Trust has a productive nursery growing locally sourced seedlings and holds regular and well supported community planting days. |
| Southern South Island | Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu | Kaitiaki o Katiki (Katiki Ranger) | $55,200 | Extend the existing Kaitiaki's role to continue the important mahi happening at Katiki Point including implementing a reserve and wildlife management work programme, visitor management, ecological restoration, and communicating cultural and wildlife values. |
| Southern South Island | Milford Sound Lodge Limited | Piopiotahi Ecosystem Restoration Project | $107,374 | Provide a managed integrated approach to predator control comprising the best practice techniques to help ensure resilience of the iconic biodiversity of the area, which includes several rare and endangered species (e.g. Fiordland tokoeka, whio, kea, kaka, boulder butterfly and other invertebrates). |
| Southern South Island | Omaui Ahu Whenua Trust | Pest Free Omaui | $50,000 | Restore and enhance the natural ecology of the Omaui area, a historical site with Maori and early settlers. This will be achieved with plans related to revegetation and pest control. |
| Southern South Island | Aspiring Biodiversity Trust (ABT) | Makarora Catchment Threatened Species Project - from Ridge to River | $69,600 | Enhance and restore indigenous threatened species and their habitats within the Makarora Catchment; "from ridge to river". 1. braided river for wrybill, black-fronted tern, black-billed gull, banded dotterel. 2. beech/ podocarp forest for kaka, mohua, long-tailed bat. 3. upper river for whio. 4. alpine environment for kea and rock wren. |
| Southern South Island | Wanaka Backyard Trapping | Upper Clutha Trapping | $14,406 | Augment community led predator trapping efforts in the Upper Clutha urban and peri-urban “Backyard”, on local council and DOC land. |
| Southern South Island | Nick Loughnan | Enhancement of Land on Galloway Flat Adjacent to DOC Rail Trail with Native Vegetation | $3,750 | Plant 100 trees per year for three years with protective rabbit netting on 3 km strip of land adjacent to DOC rail trail, Alexandra. |
| Southern South Island | Whakatipu Wildlife Trust | Conservation Leadership in the Wakatipu Basin | $70,000 | Provide leadership across the Wakatipu Basin to fill gaps in the region’s predator control community-led activities by providing vision, coordination, support and a big picture approach to both community-wide and district level predator control groups. |
| National | Birds New Zealand | New Zealand Bird Atlas Project Coordination | $131,040 | Project coordination for the New Zealand Bird Atlas project; a citizen science project aiming to record the distribution and abundance of our country's birds. Building on the legacy of the two previous Atlas projects, providing a 50-yr assessment of population trends across all of the country's birds. |
| National | Tane's Tree Trust | Training Videos and Workshops for Best-Practice Restoration of Indigenous Ecosystems by Planting and Natural Regeneration | $95,634 | Deliver free, instructional training videos, accessible via mobile devices and websites, along with field-based workshops, on restoration of our indigenous ecosystems in collaboration with community groups, iwi and landowners. |
| National | Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust (YEPT) | Facing Extinction: Increasing the Conservation Effort for Hoiho | $312,180 | Urgent action is required to reverse the decline of the endangered hoiho/yellow-eyed penguin. The Trust’s conservation efforts will be expanded to assist the survival of this species, threatened from marine and terrestrial impacts across their mainland range. |
| National | MAIN Trust NZ | WhitebaitWatch Monitoring Kit | $20,000 | Produce a Whitebait Database and monitoring kit for local community and school groups involved in spawning site surveys and river restoration work nationwide. The database will provide a central place for community records and help to support the expansion of citizen science activity and awareness of whitebait conservation needs. |
| National | Hihi Conservation Charitable Trust (HCCT) | Returning a Ray of Sunshine to New Zealand's Forests: a National Partnership to Recover Hihi. | $244,800 | Use a collaborative approach to work with community groups and mana whenua to increase hihi numbers and refine recovery methods. This will include translocations and support to employ one person to coordinate the collection of nationally consistent data to enable strategic learning. |
| National | Wildlife Hospital Trust | Hoiho/Yellow-eyed Penguin Veterinary Care at Wildlife Hospital, Dunedin | $165,000 | Provide hospital care for hoiho, including emergency treatment for predator-inflicted injuries, trauma, diphtheria, malaria, and starvation, and hand-rearing chicks at risk of disease or starvation. Strategic intervention and application of veterinary techniques assist the recovery of wild hoiho populations. |
| Total funding | $8,132,783 | |||