Nick Goldwater - TrusteeNick Goldwater is an experienced ecologist based in Auckland who has been visiting Maramatotara Bay since he was a nine-year-old. Nick has expertise in indigenous and exotic plant species, and also has considerable experience in vertebrate pest management and surveying for indigenous lizards, fish, birds, and bats. Nick is in his happy place wandering through the bush behind Maramatora Bay or in Shakespeare Cliff Scenic Reserve. He recently co-authored an article on the flora of Shakespeare Cliff, which was published in the Auckland Botanical Society Journal. In Auckland, Nick has led community projects to restore wetlands in urban parks, and he currently manages a network of traps in his neighbourhood.
Our zone...
This special area on the east coast of the Coromandel is unique. It is a combination of nearly untouched native bush areas administered by the Department of Conservation, with nature reserves run by TCDC (Thames Coromandel District Council.) and QE11 blocks.
It includes both farms encompassing blocks of bush, wetlands and waterways, with lifestyle blocks, coastal estuary streams, and sand dunes homing endangered birdlife.
The urban areas of coastal baches – quiet during the year, bustle for a few weeks in summer with an influx of visitors who make the most of what this special area in the Coromandel has to offer.
Shakespeare Cliff nature reserve
History of the trust
Purangi Conservation trust was formed in 2018 by a group of local landowners who wanted to band together and work towards a predator free community. and enhance the natural environment through plant regeneration. Our mission is to eradicate pests that destroy our birdlife and other endangered species, as well as plant for a future to feed and house them. Formerly known as the Rodent Control FMFC trust, Purangi Conservation trust is a registered charity and all donations are tax deductible
From Whitianga rock looking towards Kaitoke
Our people
The trust comprises of five trustees, one paid trapper and a team of volunteers
Jayne Nightingale - TrusteeJayne has a keen interest in growing and planting natives and has a small native nursery to encourage more planting of natives whether it is in town or rural. As we work towards a predator free NZ there is a need to keep planting to provide more habitats and food source for our native birds, bees, insects, and invertebrates.
Scotty Yates - TrusteeOur highly motivated trustee with many ideas, Scotty is a successful manufacturing and exporter, spending all his spare time at Maramaratotara beach, with his wife, Robin where he is passionate about pest control and planting. In his youth he was a competitive sports person. But now slowed down and is keen but bad golfer taking lessons from Robin and friends. “We can look back just three years. Having seen a stoat on our lawn, I asked Bob ‘what can we do.’ He had already traps set. Then a little later, with Nick and ten A24 traps donated by his mother Mary, we set them on Maramatotara track along the ridge above us. I then received an email suggesting ‘I had bitten off more than I could chew’ Amazing what the team has achieved. “
Zoe Neureuter - Contract trapper Zoe has commenced work in the backdrop area. Zoe has been a volunteer, regularly servicing trap lines in the Shakespeare Cliff reserve. With her high level of fitness, strong conservation ethic as trustee of The Noises Charitable Trust, Zoe will be a great asset to continue the good work following in Laura’s footsteps, and has made an excellent start in October.
Plus over 50 trapping volunteers
That's enabling hundreds of rats, stoats, weasels and possums to be humanely dispatched every month!
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