100 entities are now linked into the Kiwi Coast! Pest Free Pahi near Paparoa hit the milestone when they became part of the collaborative Kiwi Coast initiative last week.
To mark the occasion, Kiwi Coast will supply Pest Free Pahi with $500 worth of resources of their choice.
Shaun Holland, coordinator of Pest Free Pahi, has chosen to spend the $500 on lockable rat bait stations and says this will greatly assist the aspirations of locals who are working hard to make their 300 ha peninsula pest free.
Kiwi Coast Coordinator Ngaire Tyson says:
“With 100 entities working together to reduce pests, boost biodiversity and help kiwi thrive in the wild, Northland’s future is looking bright indeed.”
Collectively the 100 entities are actively managing 131,294 hectares, making it New Zealand’s largest initiative. Kiwi Coast stretches for 291km up the east coast of Northland from Mangawhai to the Aupouri peninsula in the Far North.
Ngaire says “We are now seeing western and inland projects forming and linking into Kiwi Coast too – putting the first steps in place for a kiwi corridor stretching right across Northland from the east to west coast!
As well as helping individual community groups, Kiwi Coast strategically supports predator control in key areas to build continuous landscape scale trapping networks across multiple projects.
Each group that gets underway or links in, not only gives a huge boost to local forests and wildlife, but also fills a gap and takes us all one step closer to the vision of thriving kiwi able to roam and wander freely in Northland.”
If you want to get a community pest control or kiwi care group underway, contact Ngaire Tyson, the Kiwi Coast Coordinator.
