Nga Manu Nature Reserve

Our 14 hectare reserve preserves one of the largest remnants of coastal lowland swamp forest on the Kapiti Coast and provides a haven for New Zealands native birds and wildlife. Our reserve has been managed by the non-profit charitable Nga Manu Trust since 1974 and opened to the public in 1981. The reserve is accessible for all, with easy walking tracks that are wheelchair friendly and wind through swamp maire, puketea, kohekohe and 400-year-old kahikatea. Our kaupapa is to preserve and enhance native forests so that their inhabitants can flourish, along with strengthening the connection between people and nature through education. We contribute to national and local conservation through our involvement in many breed-for release programmes which seek to re-establish at-risk species of birds and reptiles into the wild. This has seen us participate in breeding programmes for kiwi, whio, pateke, kaka, orange-fronted, red-crowned, yellow-crowned and Antipodes Island parakeet, tuatara,...