{"id":2120,"date":"2025-07-28T02:36:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T02:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saje.nz\/forest\/about\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T11:37:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T23:37:58","slug":"about-the-trust","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/saje.nz\/forest\/about-the-trust\/","title":{"rendered":"ABOUT THE TRUST"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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In December 2021 the Trust was recognised by Hawke’s Bay Regional Council for work that benefits the environment. The Council presented our forest manager Pete Shaw with a certificate recognising Environmental Leadership in Land Management. This recognition is due mainly to the massive commitment Pete and his small team have made over many years, and continue to make, to the restoration of threatened species of fauna and flora, and the ngahere mauri (forest lifeforce), on our properties and in other native forests around the country.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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The Forest Lifeforce Restoration Trust was established in 2006 to provide direction and funding for the restoration of threatened species of fauna and flora, and to restore the ngahere mauri (forest lifeforce) in in Maungataniwha and Pohokura native forests within the Central North Island.<\/span><\/p>

Our activities have increased significantly since 2006 and we now run six native species regeneration and restoration projects, involving both flora and fauna, on three properties<\/a>\u00a0in the central North Island, one property in the South Island\u2019s Fiordland National Park, and one property on Stewart Island.<\/span><\/p>

\u200b<\/span><\/span>The\u00a0Maungataniwha Kiwi Project<\/a>\u00a0<\/a>has carved out a name for itself as one of the most prolific and successful kiwi conservation initiatives in the country. It is part of Operation Nest Egg, where kiwi eggs are taken from our Maungataniwha property and incubated. The resulting chicks are then reared in safety by several of our partner organisations before being released back into the wild.<\/span><\/p>

We are also involved in establish secure breeding areas for the whio (Blue Duck)<\/a>\u00a0populations on our\u00a0Maungataniwha and Pohokura<\/a>\u00a0properties.<\/span><\/p>

Our extensive predator control<\/a>\u00a0operation and the establishment of\u00a0two sanctuary areas<\/a>\u00a0are vital to both the\u00a0Maungataniwha Kiwi Project<\/a>\u00a0and our\u00a0whio<\/a>\u00a0conservation work. Predator populations have been reduced significantly as a result of this work, creating a safer environment for a variety of native bird species.<\/span><\/p>

One of our most colourful projects is without doubt our kakabeak propagation, nursery and replanting programme<\/a>. Kakabeak, or Clianthus maximus, is a shrub with a glorious flower shaped like a parrot\u2019s beak and, sadly, it is now extremely rare in the wild. Before our efforts to re-establish this plant started yielding results there were only 109 plants known to be growing in the wild across the whole of New Zealand. Three of these were located on the Waiau Bluffs, within adjacent Te Urewera.<\/span><\/p>

And finally, our conversion of 4,000 ha of former pine forest back into native forest<\/a>\u00a0is, we believe, the largest project of its kind in New Zealand. A major challenge is the removal of regenerating pine that emerges and crowds out the slower growing native forest species.<\/span><\/p>

Where possible, or where existing, long-term relationships don\u2019t already exist, we try hard to use\u00a0local Hawke\u2019s Bay \/ East Coast contractors and service providers<\/a>\u00a0to undertake this work. In this way we ensure that our local communities benefit from the work we are undertaking.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In December 2021 the Trust was recognised by Hawke’s Bay Regional Council for work that benefits the environment. The Council presented our forest manager Pete Shaw with a certificate recognising Environmental Leadership in Land Management. This recognition is due mainly to the massive commitment Pete and his small team have made over many years, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-site-content-layout":"full-width-container","site-content-style":"unboxed","site-sidebar-style":"unboxed","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"enabled","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2120","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saje.nz\/forest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saje.nz\/forest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saje.nz\/forest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saje.nz\/forest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saje.nz\/forest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2120"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/saje.nz\/forest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2887,"href":"https:\/\/saje.nz\/forest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2120\/revisions\/2887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saje.nz\/forest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}