Waipoua Forest Trust

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Waipoua Forest Trust is an environmental organisation in New Zealand which is set up to protect the kauri forests in the Waipoua area.

The objectives are stated as:

"Recognising the special value that the natural taonga (treasure) of Waipoua has to all New Zealanders, the Trust was established as a bicultural partnership in 1998 to: "protect, restore, interpret and promote the internationally significant natural heritage at Waipoua for the scientific, educational and spiritual benefit of New Zealand", and:

To establish a millennial Kauri Forest to commemorate the second millennium and to celebrate the third millennium since the birth of Christ;
To protect and restore the native fauna at Waipoua with particular emphasis on Kiwi, Kokako and reginally rare or regionally extinct species including Kaka, Kakariki and Korimako;
To foster understanding of Kauri Forest and associated ecosystems through education and research, participation and management or other means, with special but not exclusive focus on the education of young people and Maori;
To provide an advocacy role for the protection and restoration of Kauri and related forest ecosystems within New Zealand;
To support the people known as Te Iwi O Te Roroa in their guardianship role for the protection of Waipoua Forest;
To promote and protect Wahi Tapu and archaeological sites in accordance with Tikanga Maori;
To assist and co-operate with others in New Zealand sharing similar aims."