Tiritiri Matangi Boat Landing
by Joan Carroll
Title
Tiritiri Matangi Boat Landing
Artist
Joan Carroll
Medium
Photograph - Photography And Digital Art
Description
Tiritiri Matangi Island is a wildlife sanctuary near Auckland New Zealand and one of the country's most important and exciting conservation projects. We thought a visit to Tiritiri Matangi sounded like a great way to spend the day. An uninhabited island, a sunny day...what could be better. Several hours later as we headed down this path to the boat dock we felt privileged. The Auckland Conservation Management Strategy allows only about 120 people a day to visit, and only on some days of the week. This meant that only about 30,000 of the 2 million+ visitors to Auckland each year can visit...only 1-2%! It is a place of incredible beauty and a story of the passion, dedication, and determination of the supporters of Tiritiri Matangi Incorporated. A hundred and twenty years of farming had seen this 220-hectare island stripped of 94% of its native bush but between 1984 and 1994, volunteers planted between 250,000 and 300,000 trees. The Island is now 60% forested with the remaining 40% left as grassland for species preferring open habitat. In conjunction with this planting program, all mammalian predators were eradicated and a number of threatened and endangered bird and reptile species have been successfully introduced.
FEATURED PHOTO, The World We See Group 2/25/17
FEATURED PHOTO, Artist News group, 2/19/17
FEATURED PHOTO, Arts Fantastic World group, 2/17/17
joan carroll, beach, clouds, road, shrubs, sky, seascape, sea, plants, scenic, tiri, water, vegetation, ocean, coast, blue, bushes, daytime, landscape, island, green, horizon, azure
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February 16th, 2017
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JOHN TELFER
Joan, Revisiting this beautiful image leading to the boat landing and beach in New Zealand. Always love these types of shots of the sandy roads leading down to the water covered on each side by greenery G+ and T
JOHN TELFER
Joan, Beautiful entrance down to the water surrounded by beautiful greenery that you have captured perfectly, L/F