Volunteer

Get actively involved in this community project. We need your skills and effort, (as an individual, a group or a business) to help make the Sanctuary a reality.

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Donate & Join

Support your community through this project with a donation of cash or products and services that can be directly used to develop the Sanctuary.

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Education

    Waimea College Headstart Group help clear pest plants

    The students from Waimea College spent the afternoon removing the invading gorse and hawthorn so that we can start to restore the hillside with native plants. We thank them very much for their hard work to help the project

    Posted by webmaster on Jun 6th, 2013

Pests

    Possum 'Pied Piper' creating noisy lures

    Matt Kavermann at Lincoln University became intrigued by the idea that noise might attract animals, and he plays Alison Ballance from Radio NZ the sounds he came up with.

    Posted by Rick Field on Feb 19th, 2013

Track Building

The Fence

Visitor Centre

    Spring Hours

    The Visitor Centre is open on weekends from 10:00am - 4:00pm and weekdays 11:30am-2:30pm.

    Posted by Rick Field on May 6th, 2013

Wildlife Monitoring

    Backyard Bird Monitoring - The Data

    Happy New Year!  As it is a brand new year, I thought I would start by reflecting on the backyard bird monitoring data collected during the past 5 years. A total of 49 different bird species were recorded during the 1402 garden surveys conducted between January 2009 and December 2013. The top 24 species were as follows:

    Posted by Katherine Chamberlain on Jan 17th, 2014