Rewild the Ōrātia Sunnyvale floodplain

The Ōrātia Wildlife Project works with locals and Te Kawerau ā Maki to rewild our West Auckland catchment, build community, and restoring natural protection to climate disruption. We do this through stream and floodplain restoration planting, weed management and pest control.

Our strategy is to run small, deliverable projects that punch above their weight and visibly bring back bird and steam life. Through this, we aim to build our core team, supporters and capacity to employ a coordinator to expand our work.

Our core restoration planting projects are the Ōrātia Native Corridor and the Ōrātia Sunnyvale Connection. Our goals are:

* To create a continuous wildlife corridor from Auckland's West Coast to the Waitematā Harbour along Wai Horotiu (Ōrātia Stream), interrupted only by roads, for the first time in over 100 years.

* To bring back flocks of kererū and restore tuna (long-finned eels) and other taonga freshwater species by creating a fenced native tree stream corridor along the Connection, and

* To create a shared cycle and walking path along the Connection to link existing shared paths and connect people with the restoration project daily.

These projects are made possible by locals who are voluntarily planting their properties and the Little Kaurimu Farm who have made land that cuts through their property available for planting and a future pathway.

Your kind donations will help pekapeka, tuna (long-finned eels) and flocks of kererū thrive.