Branch Groups Visit Limestone Island
northern
field officer, Forest and Bird.
SARAH GIBBS.
aN : orthern branch hosted .. " the September northern regional meeting, attended by Forest and Bird members from the Bombay Hills to the Far North. Among field trips was a visit to Limestone Island in the Whangarei Harbour. Northern branch has been involved in restoring Limestone Island since the first plantings took place almost 10 years ago.
Historically, the island was an important Maori pa site and later the site of limestone mining and a fertiliser plant. The island is now managed as a ‘kiwi nursery’. Kiwi chicks are taken to the island to live until
they are large enough to defend themselves against stoats and then released back into mainland ‘kiwi zones, such as the one at nearby Whangarei
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Forest and Bird, Issue 306, 1 November 2002, Page 43
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