Oruawharo Medlands Ecovision

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Mission: To work with the community to improve the habitats of native species by managing invasive pest species, restoring and nurturing the local dune, wetland and bush ecosystems.

Oruawharo Medlands Ecovision (OME) is a local community group with an environmental focus, based in Oruawharo Bay on Aotea / Great Barrier Island. We are a group of enthusiastic and passionate locals who think we have a lot to protect here in our neighbourhood, from pāteke/brown teal, matuku hūrepo/australasian bittern and mātātā/fern bird in the wetland and New Zealand dotterels on the beach and dunes to niho taniwha/chevron skinks along the creeks further inland. This is indeed a special piece of Aotea, you just have to stop and take notice!

We nurture and protect the taonga on our doorstep, and are in the planning stages of an expansion of our pest managed area, hoping to include many private properties as well as public land.

Every Wednesday from 9am, weather permitting, OME hosts weekly working bees, restoring a Department of Conservation wetland. We would love you to join us, contact us to find out where we are working from week to week.

Raoul Stuart

Chair person

Peter Jemmett

Deputy Chair

Prue Smith

Secretary

Lotte McIntyre

Coordinator

John Ogden

Data analyst

Hemo Davis

Iwi representative

Annamarie Clough

Frances McClure

Jennifer Neads

Kim Bannister

Peggy Garlick

Michelle Benson

Tony Lyon

John Garlick

Margaret Jemmett

Andy Thomson

Kim Schotel

Trapper Extraordinaire

27Nov

New Years Picnic

OME has a wishlist of things we would like to do if we had the means. If you would like to help achieve these goals, please consider donating. Items on the list include:

Boardwalk in a section of the wetland
eDNA kits and processing
Biodiversity surveys of the OME Phase Two area
Plants

If you have a preference for what your donation will be used for, please put it in the reference or email us to let us know.

You can make a direct transfer to Aotea Great Barrier Environmental Trust, our umbrella organisation to account - (ASB) 12-3110-0058231-02. Please email us for a receipt. Thank you for your support.

NZ$100

Medlands Beach, Great Barrier Island / Aotea, New Zealand

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Aotea Bittern Survey 2023

Here you can read the full report on the Aotea Great Barrier Island Bittern Survey 2023, compiled by John Ogden.

Tākoketai (black petrel) survey

Joanna Sim and her trusty canines Rua and Miro did a search of the upper Medlands area looking for tākoketai (black petrel burrows) in January 2023. We are stoked to report there is a population of breeding birds on the DoC blocks at the top of the OME Phase Two project area.