The Maungatautari Ecological
Island Trust has been
established to lead a
community project to
restore the ecology of Maungatautari, a forested
volcanic cone rising above the
Waikato basin near Cambridge,
New Zealand.
The Minister of Conservation the Hon Steve Chadwick and the Hon Mark Burton recently spent a morning on Maungatautari visiting the takahe and enjoying the views of the forest canopy from the viewing tower.
"The Trustees and local community who have worked so hard to achieve their dream have shown outstanding vision and commitment to a project that is a 'world first' for the type and scale of its undertaking on a mainland site,” said the Minister of Conservation the Hon Steve Chadwick.
