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All Parks Te Whakatairanga Papa Rēhia

1. Connect 2. Enjoy 3. Treasure 4. Utilise
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 Connect People
  • 1.3 Connect Places
  • 1.4 Connect The Environment
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Design For More Use And A Range Of Experiences
  • 2.3 Design For Comfort And Safety
  • 2.4 Design For Health, Wellbeing And Fun
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Treasure our Maori Identity
  • 3.3 Treasure Our Heritage
  • 3.4 Treasure The Natural Environment
  • 3.5 Treasure Our Communities
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Utilise Our Resources Efficiently
  • 4.3 Utilise The Environmental Benefits
  • 4.4 Utilise The Economic Benefits

Case Studies

  • Aotea Square
  • Barry Curtis Park
  • Bluestone Park
  • Browns Bay Beachfront Reserve
  • Cox’s Bay Reserve
  • Judges Bay Reserve
  • Kopupaka Reserve
  • Le Roys Bush & Little Shoal Bay
  • Long Bay Regional Park
  • Lumsden Green
  • Olympic Park
  • Onepoto Domain
  • Puhinui Reserve
  • Taumanu Reserve
  • Tawharanui Regional Park
  • Te Wānanga
  • Totara Park
  • Wainoni Park
  • Western Park

    Puhinui Reserve

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    Overview

    This important wildlife refuge effectively treasures its unique environments, embraces its rural character and incorporates built elements which pay homage to its past, all while maximising public enjoyment.

    Project Summary

    Project Summary

    ​​​​​​​​Puhinui Reserve is on the edge of the Manukau Harbour and contains significant conservation, heritage and amenity values. The reserve forms part of the extensive Matukuturua volcanic field, and is linked with pre-European settlements centred on Wiri Mountain and Matukutura (McLaughlins Mountain).

    The reserve protects a variety of ecosystems and habitats, including extensive shell banks, intertidal mudflats, mangroves and extensive shoreline salt marsh.  Part of the area is a wildlife refuge.  Thousands of international migratory birds and New Zealand endemic waders feed on the sand flats and use the shellbanks as a high tide roost.  The saltmarsh is impounded behind the shellbanks and is one of the biggest and least disturbed areas of saltmarsh remaining in the Manukau Harbour. 

    Threatened banded rail and fernbird inhabit the saltmarsh, and the regionally threatened herb Nertera scapanioides and nationally threatened Maori musk Mimulus repens have been reported here. 

    There are rare vegetation ecotones between the shellbank vegetation, the saltmarsh vegetation and into the kanuka forest on the shore, with kahikatea and rimu present.  In the shelter of the Puhinui, Pukaki, and Waokauri Creeks are significant areas of mangroves. Those in the Puhinui Creek are some of the oldest mangroves in the harbour and have salt meadows, with batchelor's button on the fringes in places.​


    External links
    • ​MFE Proposed National Policy Statement on Indigenous Biodiversity 
    • Restoring Our Biodiversity​
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