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Kings Birthday 2024 - Planting Bee

Kings Birthday 2024 - Planting Bee

May 16th 2024 Read more

Preservation of Otama Reserve Village Pa Site

Preservation of Otama Reserve Village Pa Site

July 3rd 2021 The Otama Reserve Group is very happy to have achieved its goal to preserve and protect the Village Pa Site -te wāhi tapu - an historical site on the beach reserve. Originally this site was used by Read more

WORK UNDERWAY TO PROTECT HISTORIC SITE AT OTAMA

WORK UNDERWAY TO PROTECT HISTORIC SITE AT OTAMA

May 11th 2021 Protecting the area’s environmental and historical heritage has inspired a community-led initiative at an important public space at Otama. Paul Kington from the Otama Reserves Group says learning Read more

NZ Dotterel RY-YW

NZ Dotterel RY-YW

January 2nd 2021 Photograph taken by Lianne Dalziel, Otama beach 2021 Over the December 2020/Jan 2021 breeding season, a banded NZ dotterel was sighted on Otama Beach, which is very exciting! Her name is RY-YW Read more

“Bush to beach” corridor the aim for Otama Reserves Group

“Bush to beach” corridor the aim for Otama Reserves Group

September 9th 2020 A vision of a “bush to beach” corridor free of weeds and pests is driving the efforts of eastern Coromandel’s Otama Reserves Group (ORG). The group has received $13,000 in the latest round Read more

Pampas Eradication on Otama Reserves

Pampas Eradication on Otama Reserves

April 8th 2020 As part of our weed control programme on the Otama Reserves the ORG engaged the services of Remnant Restorations last year to eradicate Pampas Grass as well as other weeds such as Agapanthus and Read more

Results of Predator Trapping at Otama

Results of Predator Trapping at Otama

April 8th 2020 The Otama Reserves Group implemented a local predator control programme on the Otama Reserves and private landholdings. This initiative began in 2018 with the establishment of a trapline encompassing Read more

Matuku (Bittern) Released into the Otama Wetland

Matuku (Bittern) Released into the Otama Wetland

March 26th 2020 A rescued Matuku – Hurepo (Australasian Bittern) was released into the Otama Wetland Reserve on the 26 of March by DOC Ranger Troy McDonald and Paul Kington from the Otama Reserves Group. The Read more

Otama Reserves Group on an exciting journey

Otama Reserves Group on an exciting journey

March 18th 2020 Paul Kington, chairman of the Otama Reserves Group, is not only excited about their progress the past 12 months, he is also keenly looking towards the future. “We’ve recently become an incorporat Read more