Zealandia (wildlife sanctuary)

The Karori Wildlife Sanctuary is a nature conservation area serving in Wellington in New Zealand. Here one tries to restore the biodiversity on an ecological island of 225 hectares of forest. The reserve covers an earlier water extraction for Wellington serving area between the adjoining Karori Wrights Hill and the Kowhai Park.

The key feature is a 8.6 km long perimeter fence which to house mouse meant to keep out of the area fourteen species of non-native mammals from Possum. The fence was completed in 1999, followed by the fourteen species extinct in the area inside the fence. This fence was the first of its kind in the world, because it excluded predators and not only was directed against the spread of an animal species like the Rabbit-Proof Fence in Australia. The fence served its purpose, in 2006 none of the extinct species was invaded again in the protected area to the house mouse.

The sanctuary inspired similar projects throughout New Zealand, including the 98 -acre Bushy Park in Wanganui, the 7.7 -acre remnant of a Podocarpus forests of Riccarton bus / Putaringamotu in Christchurch and the 3,500 -acre area of ​​Maungatautari Restoration Project in Waikato.

Flora and fauna are currently recovering from the ruling before the protection status state of decline. The jungle of the valley was burned down in the 1850s and 1860s and until 1906 used the land as farmland. The natural forest is recovering since then, but in most areas still in the early stages of succession, in which small, hardy trees like Mahoe ( Melicytus ramiflorus ) dominate. Species of indigenous flora that are missing today or are rare, are large stone Yews as Rimu ( Dacrydium cupressinum ), Matai ( Prumnopitys taxifolia ), Miro ( P. ferruginea ), kahikatea ( Dacrycarpus dacrydioides ) and Totara ( Podocarpus totara ). These are reintroduced. North Island ironwood (Northern Rata, Metrosideros robusta) is also almost disappeared from the valley, several seedlings were planted. However, there is already a large diversity of native tree species that serve the local fauna for their livelihoods, including a mature component of the New Zealand Baumfuchsie ( Fuchsia excorticata ).

The reserve is now responsible an important tourist destination in the city of Wellington and for strongly increasing sightings of birds such as Tui and " Bellbird " ( Anthornis melanura ) in the western suburbs of Wellington.

Species

  • Native birds that were settled since 2000: New Zealand Bellbird ( Korimako, Anthornis melanura )
  • New Zealand Duck ( Pateke, Anas chlorotis )
  • North Island Kākā ( Nestor meridionalis )
  • Zwergkiwi ( pukupuku Kiwi, Apteryx owenii )
  • Maori pigeon ( kereru, Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae )
  • Langbeinschnäpper ( Toutouwai, Petroica longipes )
  • Saddle Star, northern subspecies ( Tieke, Philesturnus carunculatus rufusater )
  • Scaup ( Papango, Aythya novaeseelandiae )
  • Yellow tape honeyeater ( Hihi, Notiomystis cincta )
  • North Island tomtit ( Miro Miro, Petroica macrocephala ToiToi )
  • North Island Wekaralle ( Gallirallus australis)
  • White head ( Popokatea, Mohoua ochrocephala )
  • Other native species that have been located since 2000: 70 tuatara ( Sphenodon punctatus ) on Stephens Iceland in December 2005 were transferred here.
  • 100 Riesenweta
  • 21 Maud Island frogs ( Leiopelma pakeka )
  • Other native species that spread again by itself: Grey Fantail ( Piwakawaka, Rhipidura fulginosa placabilis )
  • Maorigerygone ( Riroriro, Gerygone igata )
  • Tui ( Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae )
  • Spring Parakeet ( Kakariki, Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae )
  • Grey Forest Gecko ( Hoplodactylus granulatus )
  • Skink

Species that is intended to exclude the fence

  • Hausratte
  • Domestic Cat
  • Deer
  • Canine
  • Ferrets
  • Goats
  • Hedgehog
  • House Mouse
  • Brown rat
  • Pacific rat
  • Pigs
  • Possum
  • Ermine
  • Weasel
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