MONITORING, SURVEY and INVENTORY
Sometimes its not very clear what species are present at a site until a specific survey is done.
Monitoring of certain characteristics is usually done to show how things are changing over time due to management practices. For example, we are monitoring weta to show how they will increase when rats are controlled in A’Deane’s Bush; density of seedlings and saplings relative to presence or absence of ivy in Puahanui Bush, and presence of long –tailed bats in a number of Central HB reserves and covenants.
Below are some of the monitoring projects we are currently working on.
- Rat density
- Long tailed bats
- Morepork counts
- Bird counts
- Weta
- Sapling and seedling density
- Overall vegetation changes
- Ground dwelling invertebrates
- Lizards
