Mangaiti Gully Restoration Trust

Restoration by the community for the community. If you are interested in receiving an email notification every time the blog is updated then register your email on gullyrestoration@gmail.com. Co ordinators are Rex Bushell 854-0973 and Rod Lugton 855-9966 .

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Monday, June 2, 2025

Black mud fish

In December 2023 our Trust submitted an application to the Department of Conservation (DOC) for the translocation of black mudfish into a bl...

Translocating eels

A concern had been raised that successful establishment of mudfish might not succeed if there was heavy predation by eels. Mudfish have evol...

Book review – KIWI BEES HAVE TINY KNEES Native bees of Aotearoa New Zealand

In the January 2025 blog posting there was an article on NZ native bees. This book is an excellent follow up on that. Although it is designe...

A story from a Mangaiti Gully neighbour

When we first moved here 15 years ago, there were no tūī. It took about 5 years of clearing, planting and predator control before we saw our...

Dog poo!

Since opening our section of the gully to the public we have had to manage a certain amount of anti-social behaviour. While this is always d...

Sunday, April 6, 2025

Wētā nook

With the success of the eel feeding platform and the sign educating the general public on the unique life history of the longfin eel and why...

Staff (stream water) gauge

As a public interest project we have installed a staff gauge in the stream that can be seen from the walk bridge that runs between Grenache ...

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