Walk Details
NZ Walking Routes > Waikato > Te Kuiti > Mapara Wildlife Reserve
Mapara Wildlife Reserve
- Location
- Mapara lies 35 km southwest of Te Kuiti, along Mapara South Road.
- Description
- Since 1989 the Mapara Wildlife Reserve (1400 ha) has been the focus of an intensive, and very successful, conservation management project. Kokako can be heard and sometimes seen from a moderately graded tramping track. You are most likely to hear kokako call in the early morning or late evening. Please do not go elsewhere in the reserve or trespass on neighbouring farmland. An information board is situated at the start of the track. Guided walks may be available by prior arrangement with the Department of Conservation. For their own safety, please do not take dogs into the reserve – poisoning operations are carried out frequently. After extensive regenerating, the Tawa has flourished and is now the most common canopy tree in the reserve and a few podocarps are evident.
- Duration
- 1.0 hours
- Level
- Medium
- Amenities
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- Birds
- Historical
- Plant Life
- Source
- www.doc.govt.nz
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