Protecting precious waterways

Black-billed gull/tarapuka fledgling learning to fly

Twilight walk to show public a black-billed gull colony

Black-fronted tern/tarapirohe

Pied stilt/poaka

South Island pied oystercatcher/torea

Wrybill/ngutupare

Banded dotterel/pohowera

Wrybill on nest

Customised ripper / undercutter to clear weeds

Volunteers pulling weeds

Graph showing bird number increase since management began in 2000

Riverbed access blocks installed for breeding season

Trap making

Trail camera monitoring wrybill nest

Ashley estuary and river