The 1,400-hectare Mapara Wildlife Reserve is often described as an "island of forest in a sea of pasture". Managing isolated forest pockets has some advantages over managing larger forest blocks ‒ ship rats and possums probably reinvade at lower rates than when the block is surrounded by forest. Pests at Mapara have been intensively managed since 1989. In this time kokako numbers have more than doubled, from fewer than 50 to more than 100.
PHIL BRADFIELD
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Forest and Bird, Issue 282, 1 November 1996, Page 14
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75The 1,400-hectare Mapara Wildlife Reserve is often described as an "island of forest in a sea of pasture". Managing isolated forest pockets has some advantages over managing larger forest blocks ‒ ship rats and possums probably reinvade at lower rates than when the block is surrounded by forest. Pests at Mapara have been intensively managed since 1989. In this time kokako numbers have more than doubled, from fewer than 50 to more than 100. PHIL BRADFIELD Forest and Bird, Issue 282, 1 November 1996, Page 14
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