South Auckland Branch Visits Stonefields
outh Auckland branch visited one of Auckland’s newest reserves, the Otuataua Stonefields. The park protects extensive areas of Maori gardens, including garden walls and stone piles where tropical vegetables such as gourds and yams were raised in their warm microclimates. The reserve is one of the few remaining undeveloped pieces of coast along the eastern shoreline of the Manukau Harbour, and has some important remnants of native vegetation. Otuataua is notable for being one of only
five known mainland locations of the threatened native cucumber, or nawhai Sicyos australis. South Auckland Forest and Bird was one of the many groups in Auckland which lobbied for Manukau City Council to purchase and protect this important piece of coastal land during the 1990s. The field trip was led by Waitakere branch chair and entomologist Dr Peter Maddison, who has been doing surveys of invertebrates for the park.
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Forest and Bird, Issue 307, 1 February 2003, Page 38
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