A Feeling for the Forest
Forest and Bird’s Matuku Reserve at Te Henga protects the largest surviving wetland in the Auckland region, and also offers superb transects through coastal rainforest up to the ridges of the Waitakere Ranges. Since the first purchase in the 1970s, Matuku has been progressively expanded to 100 hectares. The forest is notable for its broad representation of northern plants. The swamp, rich in flax and cabbage trees, is the haunt of native fish and many wetland birds including crake, rail and bittern. Jetties into the swamp assist with bird watching. A circular track, which winds down to the swamp, returns to the carpark just off Jonkers Road, Waitakere. There is no access from Te Henga Road which runs down the other side of the swamp to Bethells Beach.
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Forest and Bird, Issue 303, 1 February 2002, Page 16
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133A Feeling for the Forest Forest and Bird, Issue 303, 1 February 2002, Page 16
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