Local resources
Here you can find additional resources in your quest to restore the environment or make your garden wildlife friendly.
Garden retailers
For planting advice and ideas see our Planting pages.
Palmers Gardenworld Miramar
Address: 71 Miramar Ave, Wellington 6022
Phone:04-388 8435
Mon - Sun 8:30am to 5:00pm
Traps
For advice about trapping see our Pests pages.
Goodnature Limited
PO Box 14712
Kilbirnie Wellington 6241
New Zealand
www.goodnature.co.nz
Predator Traps
The official site of DOC series trapping systems
www.predatortraps.com/about.htm
Haines Pallet Co
111 Hutt Park Rd, Seaview, Wellington
Ph: (04) 568 6898
Fax: (04) 568 6480
Email: haines.pallets@xtra.co.nz
Prices may not be current
Enhancing the Halo
www.halo.org.nz
Become a Halo household member and and get a discount on traps.
Organisations
Predator Free Wellington (Supporting and connecting community trapping groups across Wellington)
https://www.pfw.org.nz
Predator free Miramar ( Local backyard trapping group.)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/PFMiramar/
Wellington City Council
www.wellington.govt.nz
Phone (+64 4) 499 4444
Mobile free text 3400
Email info@wcc.govt.nz
Fax (+64 4) 801 3138
Postal Address PO Box 2199
Wellington 6140
New Zealand
Street Address 101 Wakefield Street
Wellington 6011
8am – 5pm (closed public holidays)
Forest & Bird
www.forestandbird.org.nz
Level One, 90 Ghuznee Street
PO Box 631
Wellington 6140
Phone + 64 4 385 7374
Fax + 64 4 385 7373
9am-5pm (Weekdays)
Department of Conservation
www.doc.govt.nz
Conservation House 18-32 Manners St, Te Aro 6011
(04) 471 0726
To report damage and conservation emergencies
Call the DOC emergency hotline 0800 DOCHOT (0800 362 468).
Conservation emergencies include:
- Conservation-related law enforcement (for example illegal white-baiting, vandalism of huts and tracks, removal of plants from reserves, killing or catching of native wildlife, fishing in marine reserves, disturbing marine mammals)
- Sick or injured wildlife
- Marine mammal stranding (whales and dolphins only)
- Safety Watch (damaged and/or unsafe visitor facilities)
Zealandia: The Karori Sanctuary Experience
www.visitzealandia.com
50 Waiapu Road, Karori, Wellington 6012
(04) 920 9200
10am - 5pm. Entry fee.
Open every day except Christmas Day.
Last valley entry at 4pm.
Feather Friendly
https://www.featherfriendly.com/
Feather Friendly® was developed as a solution to save birds from window collisions. We are proud to be endorsed by leading bird conservation organizations.
Project Kererū
https://projectkereru.org.nz/preventing-window-strike
"Dedicated to the Rehabilitation and Release of the New Zealand Native Pigeon"
Kererū Discovery
https://kererudiscovery.org.nz/
Our vision is to one day see flocks of Kererū as a coomon sight on the sky
Books & leaflets
Native plants & weeds
New Zealand Native Trees
John Dawson and Rob Lucas
Craig Potton publishing 2011
Going Native
Growing and using New Zealand Native plants
Edited by Ian Spellerberg and David Given
Canterbury University Press 2004
Reprinted in 2009
The Propagation of New Zealand Native Plants
Lawrie Metcalf
Revised Edition 2007
Random House
The Propagation of New Zealand Native Grasses
Lawrie Metcalf
Revised Edition 2008
Random House
The Native Garden
Designing themes from Wild New Zealand
Isobel Gabites and Rob Lucas
Revised Edition 2007
Random House
Wild Orchids of Lower North Island
Field Guide 2007
Department Of Conservation
Wellington Regional Native Plant Guide
Revised edition 2010
Greater Wellington Regional Council
A Guide to Identification of New Zealand Weeds in Colour
Compiled by E.A. Upritchard for NZ weed and pest control society 1997
A field guide to the native edible plants of New Zealand
Andrew Crowe
Reprinted 2011
Penguin Books
Know your New Zealand native plants
Lawrie Metcalf
2009 New Holland publishers
Plant me instead
For more information www.weedbusters.org.nz
Wildlife
New Zealand forest birds and their world
Geoff Moon
2010 New Holland publishers
Moa - The life and death of New Zealand's legendary bird
Quinn Berentson
Craig Potton publishing 2012
Details correct as at May 2019
