Many thanks to Claire Taylor for this wonderful painting of rats sitting on a branch engaged in a serious workshop about rat traps!
Category: General
Summer Newsletter 2015
This fine summer has brought walkers in their thousands to enjoy the shaded tracks of the Okura Bush Walkway – Auckland’s most popular bush track. It has also been a great season for native wildlife. Birdsong generally is considered more abundant thanks to the trapping program started at the beginning of 2014. Four endangered NZ dotterel chicks have hatched on…
The return of the forest gecko
After one and a half years of small scale rat trapping we have spotted our first forest gecko (Mokopirirakau granulatus). Great to see that the numbers could be on the climb. This female looks pregnant too!
Local Board funding for 2015 Festival
Thanks to Hibiscus and Bays local Board for giving us $1000 towards running the Okura Forest Festival 2015.
Spring Newsletter October 2014
The abundant kowhai flowers along the riverbank attracted a host of warbling tui earlier this month, to the delight of walkers some of whom lingered as they crossed the bridge, cameras poised. Now we can hope that those birds with established nests are rearing their young with greater chance of survival than before FOOB came into existence. In September the…
words of wisdom
“In the end we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand; and we will understand only what we have been taught.” ― Baba Dioum
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