Portal:New Zealand/Selected picture/Week 45, 2006

The Maungatautari Restoration Project is the largest ecological restoration project in New Zealand, involving the total removal of all pest mammals. It is located just south of Lake Karapiro in the Waikato region of the North Island and comprises 33.63 square kilometres of forested volcanic peak surrounded by pastoral farmland, embraced on two sides by the Waikato River. Picture archive