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Kōrero: Acclimatisation

Whangamarino wetland

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Whangamarino wetland

The 7,290-hectare Whangamarino wetland in the Waikato has tens of thousands of game birds living in its swamps and channels. Some 730 hectares are owned and managed by the Auckland/Waikato Fish & Game Council, with a similar sized area privately owned. From the 1960s acclimatisation societies and some hunters began purchasing wetlands to preserve habitats.

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Carl Walrond, Acclimatisation – Fish and game councils, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/17476/whangamarino-wetland (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Carl Walrond, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.