Tonganui Corridors

Tonganui Corridors will reconnect the public conservation land of the Aorangi and Remutaka forests by forming permanent native forest corridors across the big south Wairarapa valley. We see indigenous plants, birds, insects, lizards and fish thriving here. The project will complement the effort to make the valley predator-free as well as natural regeneration of native bush in re-establishing natural ecosystem processes benefitting the whole landscape, and helping people’s lives, socially, culturally, and economically. The forest corridors will provide shade and shelter, improve water quality of streams and rivers, reduce nutrient runoff from farms and lock up atmospheric carbon, reducing climate warming. This is the start of a long-term project with a contract between Project Crimson and Aorangi Restoration Trust to oversee it – to fence-off land and plant trees, mainly on private property.