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| Photo taken in Hamilton by Kemble Pudney |
This long-term programme is underway. It is based around the
Miro tree because of its berries being so palatable to the Kereru. First we identified existing Miro in the
gully and GPS plotted them onto a map. Now we are following up by selectively
planting Miro so that we fill in the gaps. This is being done over the entire
thirty hectares of Mangaiti Gully. With the sum of what is already in the
ground and what plants we have to go in will total more than forty.
In addition, around each Miro we are planting Tawa, Pigeon
Wood and Nikau. The theory is that we will develop forty attractive feeding
stations for Kereru within Mangaiti Gully. We do stress that this is a long-term
project in that these trees take a considerable number of years to mature.
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