Sponsor a fence-post and help save babies
Imagine a place… where native plants and animals thrive, without threat from introduced pests. … alive with birdsong, where rare species such as kiwi, tuatara and kakapo roam freely. … where you can get involved and make a difference. … where visitors can see native flora and fauna close to home.
New Zealand is facing a biodiversity crisis. Many native birds, animals and plants are being wiped out by introduced pests. Protection efforts centred on trapping, hunting, and poisons are insufficient to save many of our rarest species. Without a defined barrier, total pest exclusion is unachievable and even small numbers of stoats, possums and rats inflict significant damage to our precious endangered species. Without urgent action, our unique birdsong will not be heard by future generations.
The Brook Waimarama Sanctuary is a community-based initiative working to create a pest-free wildlife sanctuary close to the Nelson city centre in New Zealand. Integral to creating the Brook Waimarama Sanctuary is construction of a pest-proof fence 14km long, to enclose the area, and to eradicate all the pest mammals within it. This will enable the re-creation of a historic piece of New Zealand which today is only found on a few offshore islands. Resident birds, reptiles and invertebrates will flourish and species previously lost from the area will be re-introduced. The project was launched in 2004 and has strong community involvement and support.
THE SANCTUARY SITE
The Sanctuary will extend over 715 hectares of a former Water Reserve owned by Nelson City Council. Most of the site comprises mature beech forest with occasional huge podocarps. The southern part of the site is diverse broadleaved forest on land cleared in the 19th Century. Over 250 species of plants have been recorded and the birdlife includes rare species such as NZ falcon, yellow-crowned parakeets, weka and robins. The site is an ideal size and location. It is a short distance from Nelson City, Stoke and Richmond with forested corridors to take birdlife from the sanctuary into these areas and into residents’ gardens. It is joined to the south to 100,000 plus hectares of native forest including the Mt Richmond Conservation Area.
Pests such as rats, stoats and possums are killing our baby native birds and animals, and species are going extinct. Now you can help stop this tragedy.
The Brook Waimarama Sanctuary is building a 14km pest-proof fence in Brook Valley, Nelson, which will create a 700 hectare protected nursery. When completed it will allow native birds and animals to flourish behind the fence, and spread throughout the region and back into our lives.
Get behind the fence! Sponsor one (or more) of the 7000 fence posts required to complete the project, and help save the babies!
http://www.brooksanctuary.org/
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