Te Matuku Marine Reserve - Revision history

Wolfgang Fahl at 11:22, 7 February 2009

2009-02-07T11:22:59Z

Wolfgang Fahl at 11:21, 7 February 2009

2009-02-07T11:21:58Z

Wolfgang Fahl at 11:20, 7 February 2009

2009-02-07T11:20:52Z

Wolfgang Fahl at 11:19, 7 February 2009

2009-02-07T11:19:57Z

Wolfgang Fahl at 07:50, 16 December 2008

2008-12-16T07:50:31Z

Hackademic at 09:28, 30 June 2008

2008-06-30T09:28:40Z

Hackademic at 09:26, 30 June 2008

2008-06-30T09:26:07Z

Hackademic at 09:14, 30 June 2008

2008-06-30T09:14:06Z

Hackademic at 09:07, 30 June 2008

2008-06-30T09:07:37Z

Hackademic: links

2008-06-30T08:41:56Z

links

← Older revision		Revision as of 11:22, 7 February 2009
Line 1:		Line 1:
−	[http://www.doc.govt.nz/templates/podcover.aspx?id=33886 Te Matuku Marine Reserve] (690ha) protects one of Waiheke Island's largest and least disturbed estuaries and an area outside [[Te Matuku Bay]] in the Waiheke Channel.	+	[http://www.doc.govt.nz/templates/podcover.aspx?id=33886 Te Matuku Marine Reserve] / [http://www.doc.govt.nz/parks-and-recreation/places-to-visit/auckland/auckland-area/te-matuku-marine-reserve DOC page for Te Matuku Marine Reserve] (690ha) protects one of Waiheke Island's largest and least disturbed estuaries and an area outside [[Te Matuku Bay]] in the Waiheke Channel.
	The [[Royal Forest & Bird Society]] applied for the area to be protected. The [http://www.forestandbird.org.nz/Marine/reserves/tematuku.pdf application] by the Hauraki Islands branch was made in 1998. It was finally declared a reserve in 2005 and became a no-take zone for life of any sort.		The [[Royal Forest & Bird Society]] applied for the area to be protected. The [http://www.forestandbird.org.nz/Marine/reserves/tematuku.pdf application] by the Hauraki Islands branch was made in 1998. It was finally declared a reserve in 2005 and became a no-take zone for life of any sort.

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
 [http://www.doc.govt.nz/templates/podcover.aspx?id=33886 Te Matuku Marine Reserve] (690ha) protects one of Waiheke Island's largest and least disturbed estuaries and an area outside [[Te Matuku Bay]] in the Waiheke Channel.
 The [[Royal Forest & Bird Society]] applied for the area to be protected. The [http://www.forestandbird.org.nz/Marine/reserves/tematuku.pdf application] by the Hauraki Islands branch was made in 1998. It was finally declared a reserve in 2005 and became a no-take zone for life of any sort.
-The [[Department of Conservation]] is now overseeing the Reserve see [http://www.doc.govt.nz/parks-and-recreation/places-to-visit/auckland/auckland-area/te-matuku-marine-reserve DOC page for Te Matuku Marine Reserve].
 Boats are permitted in the bay and Passage Rock remains an important navigation aid. Dogs are not permitted on the shell spits, where the endangered New Zealand dotterel nests.

@@ Line 14: / Line 14: @@
 ====The estuary====
-The estuary includes more than 28ha of sedimentary mudflats and is rich with birdlife. According to the [http://www.doc.govt.nz/ Department of Conservation]the following species are present:-
+The estuary includes more than 28ha of sedimentary mudflats and is rich with birdlife. According to the [[Department of Conservation]] the following species are present:-
 =====Nesting on the spits:=====

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
 [http://www.doc.govt.nz/templates/podcover.aspx?id=33886 Te Matuku Marine Reserve] (690ha) protects one of Waiheke Island's largest and least disturbed estuaries and an area outside [[Te Matuku Bay]] in the Waiheke Channel.
 The [[Royal Forest & Bird Society]] applied for the area to be protected. The [http://www.forestandbird.org.nz/Marine/reserves/tematuku.pdf application] by the Hauraki Islands branch was made in 1998. It was finally declared a reserve in 2005 and became a no-take zone for life of any sort.
 Boats are permitted in the bay and Passage Rock remains an important navigation aid. Dogs are not permitted on the shell spits, where the endangered New Zealand dotterel nests.

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
 [http://www.doc.govt.nz/templates/podcover.aspx?id=33886 Te Matuku Marine Reserve] (690ha) protects one of Waiheke Island's largest and least disturbed estuaries and an area outside [[Te Matuku Bay]] in the Waiheke Channel.
-[[Forest and Bird]] applied for the area to be protected. The [http://www.forestandbird.org.nz/Marine/reserves/tematuku.pdf application] by the Hauraki Islands branch was made in 1998. It was finally declared a reserve in 2005 and became a no-take zone for life of any sort.
+The [[Royal Forest & Bird Society]] applied for the area to be protected. The [http://www.forestandbird.org.nz/Marine/reserves/tematuku.pdf application] by the Hauraki Islands branch was made in 1998. It was finally declared a reserve in 2005 and became a no-take zone for life of any sort.
 Boats are permitted in the bay and Passage Rock remains an important navigation aid. Dogs are not permitted on the shell spits, where the endangered New Zealand dotterel nests.

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
 [http://www.doc.govt.nz/templates/podcover.aspx?id=33886 Te Matuku Marine Reserve] (690ha) protects one of Waiheke Island's largest and least disturbed estuaries and an area outside [[Te Matuku Bay]] in the Waiheke Channel.
-[[Forest and Bird]] applied for the area to be protected. The [http://www.forestandbird.org.nz/Marine/reserves/tematuku.pdf application] by the Hauraki Islands branch was made in 1998. It was finally declared a reserve in 2005.
+[[Forest and Bird]] applied for the area to be protected. The [http://www.forestandbird.org.nz/Marine/reserves/tematuku.pdf application] by the Hauraki Islands branch was made in 1998. It was finally declared a reserve in 2005 and became a no-take zone for life of any sort.
-====Features====
+===Features===
 Te Matuku Bay is considered important as one of the few remaining pristine estuarine evironments in the Hauraki Gulf that have an equally untouched forest on its shores. Its rich diversity of habitats - from the depths of the Waiheke Channel through broad intertidal mudflats to saltwater wetlands at the feet of the lowland broadleaf forest of Forest and Bird's reserve - is one of its key features and featured strongly in the promotion of the proposal for a marine reserve.
@@ Line 11: / Line 11: @@
-=====The estuary=====
+====The estuary====
 The estuary includes more than 28ha of sedimentary mudflats and is rich with birdlife. According to the [http://www.doc.govt.nz/ Department of Conservation]the following species are present:-
-======Nesting on the spits======
+=====Annual migrants from Siberia:=====
-Variable oystercatcher, Caspian tern and New Zealand dotterel (endangered).
+Godwits, knots, sandpipers and turnstones.
-======Annual migrants from Siberia======
+=====Other coastal birds:=====
-Godwits, knots, sandpipers and turnstones.
+Banded dotterels,white-fronted terns, reef herons and spotless crakes. The rare Australasian bittern, known to Maori as matuku, has also been recorded in the bay.
-======Internal migrants======
+====The shoreline====
-Wrybills and pied oystercatchers
+Species known to inhabit the rock shore and beaches of the bay include snails, chitons, acorn barnacles, small black mussels and tubeworms at the intertidal zone.
-======Other coastal birds======
+====Deeper water====
-Banded dotterels,white-fronted terns, reef herons and spotless crakes. The rare Australasian bittern, known to Maori as matuku, has also been recorded in the bay.
+Out around [[Passage Rock]] itself, in deeper water but with still the find silt bottom typical of the bay, are burrowing polychaetes, echinoids, sea stars, sand dollars and gastropods. Subtidal reefs are home to sponges, anemones and nudibranchs. At the rock itself are found crayfish and snapper.
 [[Category:Parks and Reserves]]
 [[Category:The environment]]

@@ Line 6: / Line 6: @@
-:::A sequence of plants - from eel grass o the mudlfats through mangrove and salt marsh, to maritime fringing bush and finally up into lowland broadleaf :::forest - is special because such natural successions of changing plant communities are now rare in Northern New Zealand. - [http://www.doc.govt.nz/upload/documents/conservation/marine-and-coastal/marine-protected-areas/Te-Matuku-Marine-Reserve.pdf Department of Conservation brochure].
+:::A sequence of plants - from eel grass o the mudlfats through mangrove and salt marsh, to maritime fringing bush and finally up into lowland broadleaf :::forest - is special because such natural successions of changing plant communities are now rare in Northern New Zealand.
 =====The estuary=====
 The estuary includes more than 28ha of sedimentary mudflats and is rich with birdlife. According to the [http://www.doc.govt.nz/ Department of Conservation]the following species are present:-