Walk Details
NZ Walking Routes > Auckland > Tiritiri Matangi Island
Tiritiri Matangi Island
- Location
- A ferry is run to provide a service to Tiritiri Matangi, enabling people to enjoy a day trip to walk the island's tracks and listen to its birds.
- Description
Tiritiri Matangi ("looking to the wind" or "wind tossing about" is one of the most successful conservation projects in the world. Unwanted predators have been eradicated, and the once-pastoral island has been replanted with native trees. Rare native birds and animals have been returned to its now-safe and restored habitats.
As an open sanctuary you can visit Tiritiri Matangi and see some of New Zealand's most endangered birds in the wild, including takahe, kokako, saddleback and hihi or stitchbird.
Managed by the Department of Conservation in partnership with Supporters of Tiritiri Matangi the island has the status of an open sanctuary. This allows the public to visit and enjoy the natural splendour of rapidly regenerating native forest and ever increasing birdsong. Since 1984, around 300,000 native trees have been planted allowing the reintroduction of threatened native bird specials as well as tuatara, New Zealand’s living dinosaur.
- Duration
- 5.0 hours
- Amenities
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- Birds
- Historical
- Lookouts
- Picnics
- Plant Life
- Swimming
- Toilets
- Source
- www.doc.govt.nz
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