Tiritiri Matangi Island

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Tiritiri Matangi Island is a wildlife sanctuary island in the Hauraki Gulf of the North Island, New Zealand; it is located 30 kilometres north east of Auckland.

Tiritiri Matangi Island is one of New Zealand's most important and moving conservation projects. The island is 60% forested with the remaining 40% left as grassland for species preferring open habitat.

All mammalian predators were removed and a number of threatened and endangered bird and reptilian species have been successfully introduced including the flightless takahe and the tuatara. There is nowhere else in New Zealand you can see and walk amongst rare and endangered species.

Tiritiri Matangi Island has been credited as one of the top 25 ecological restoration projects in Australasia. The project is managed by the Department of Conservation in conjunction with the Supporters of Tiritiri Matangi Incorporated.

On the island there is no food available to buy, but you can purchase cold drinks from the shop and complimentary tea/coffee is supplied.

Mountain buggies and walking are the best way to travel through the tracks. The tracks are hard surface, grass, or boardwalks, with many wooden steps.

Tiritiri Matangi Island History

Tiritiri Matangi Island was settled by the Kawerau-A-Maki tribe. They built the pa Tiritiri Matangi; this is where the island gets its name. Europeans arrived in the mid 1850s. The island was farmed until the 1970s, when the Hauraki Gulf Maritime Park Board was given responsibility for Tiritiri Matangi and the last of the stock was removed.

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