The projects aims to help protect the white flippered penguin colonies at Godley Head.  A cliff top Pest Proof Fence is currently under construction the system utilises Mesh Industries' woven zinc alloy mesh.  As the White Flipper breed in September/October and fledge offspring in the December it was decided to construct and comlete the fence over the autumn to allow for removal of pests prior to the 2010 breeding season. 

The vision of the landowners was “to create again a peninsula that bustles with wildlife,” and this has become a reality.

Cape Kidnappers and Ocean Beach Wildlife Preserve Project was a partnership aimed to increase the diversity and abundance of native species that would naturally be found in the peninsula’s coastal ecosystem, including land and sea birds.

The project is significant due to the integration of conservation and economic goals – it is being done within a rural landscape including farming and forestry operations – and it may become a role model for other farms.

In 2007 the landowners completed a 9.6km pest proof Mesh Industries fence across the base of the peninsula from coast to coast, providing a predator free area of 2200 hectares.

In August 2008, five Eastern Brown Kiwi were released, and by 2011 approximately 60 will be in the preserve with the numbers increasing by 20% each year. www.savethekiwi.org.nz

The area is large enough to support a self contained and viable population of several species of endangered birds, enabling conservation workers to assist in the building of nesting colonies for penguins and other seabirds. To find out more about this project, visit www.oceanbeachnz.co.nz

The Paparoa Wildlife Trust (PWT) is a recently established conservation trust working toward establishing and maintaining effective recovery programmes for great spotted kiwi and blue duck in the South Paparoa Range, north of Greymouth on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand.

Their vision is to secure self sustaining populations of great spotted kiwi and blue duck in perpetuity through bringing communities and stakeholders together.

Using MESH Wire Mesh fencing products, the Mainland Kiwi Creche will be created by enclosing an 11 hectare block of privately owned land in the lowland bush margin of the South East Paparoa’s between the Moonlight and Big River catchments. Construction started in June 2009. Once the fence is completed and pests eradicated, the kiwi chicks will be introduced. Want to know more? Visit www.pwt.org.nz

MESH supplied materials for a 560 m long pest proof fence, which has been built by volunteers around an unusually rich and diverse community of lizards on a rock crop outcrop in the Ponatahi Valley near Martinborough, in the Wairarapa. The landowner has trapped predators around the rock outcrop for many years, his efforts greatly helping the lizard colony to survive, but not stopping this colony from declining to very low levels. This fence is required to keep the site completely predator free and to restore the lizard colony to its former glory.