2021-2022 has been a watershed year for Project Janszoon and our partners with plenty to celebrate. One of the biggest achievements of our 10th Anniversary year was reaching our first two Tomorrow Accord targets, for wilding conifer control and coastal weeds. We celebrated this with a ceremony to sign the agreements with the Department of Conservation for the ongoing maintenance of the gains made through the hard work of so many.
We saw some exciting biodiversity gains with whio, kākā and pāteke populations growing, thanks to a healthy amount of breeding activity by the translocated birds that have made the park their home.
We also released 21 more pāteke at Anchorage, and 10 whio in some amazing habitat in the Park interior. Now that we have our trapping network well established to control stoats, we have confidence they will be safe and secure to raise their young.
Our education programme students returned to the park after the Covid-19 upheavals, and the park has been full of learning activities at our adopt a section sites as school visits get underway again.
We got to grips with ground-breaking conservation science and technology, using acoustic monitoring of forest birds and automated stoat lures on trapping lines, to help us better understand the dynamics of the ecosystem we are working so hard to restore.
In the last couple of months we’ve been in full swing celebrating 10 years of Project Janszoon with a photo exhibition, some guided walks and a thank you event for volunteers. We’ve also released a video that shares the outcomes achieved over the last 10 years from the perspectives of volunteers, students and Project Janszoon partners.
We’ve just published our 2022 Annual Report, with some great stories about the events in the past year in the Park – we hope you enjoy reading about what has been achieved through the mahi of so many.
