For our task we had to write an information report about Tahuna Torea.
Tahuna Torea is a wonderful place to go and just relax or have a bit of a walk.
Tahuna Torea is a walk which is 3.5 miles long or 4 to 4.5 kilometers long. The duration time is about 1h 16m to 1h 30m.
Thauna Torea History:
The name was changed from Glen Innes Domain to Tahuna Torea Nature Reserve, which means “the gathering place of the oyster catchers”, Torea being a name which suggests the cry of the oyster catcher.
Barfoot says the community was lucky to have Welsh naturalist Roland Lockley to advise them and support their plans. “I sold him his house,” he says, “so when we wanted to create the reserve, I went to see him.”
Lockley had set up similar reserves in the UK and written books on the subject, and he advised the society on what a nature reserve should be like and what it needed to do to create habitats that would attract birds.
There is also a Barfoot and Thompson seat.
The barfoot and Thompson seat is a seat at the Tahuna Torea reserve park in Glen Innes (GI). The seat was named after the founder of Barfoot and Thompson’s wife.
Recent news:
I have heard of a man that lives right next to the reserve and is very conservative of that land as it must have been connected to him in a religious way. He looks at every little movement that happens inside the reserve and if someone is not looking after the plants, animals and landscaping in general the he will come and tell you of for it.
