Kopuatai Peat Dome

Satellite photo showing the Kopuatai Peat Dome - the brown footprint-shaped area centre

The Kopuatai Peat Dome is a wetland on the Hauraki Plains in New Zealand.

The 10,201 ha wetland was listed under the Ramsar Convention in 1989 as a Wetland of International Importance.[1] It is one of only three rare New Zealand examples of a resiad wetland, those containing the botanical Family Restionaceae.[2]

It survived extensive draining of the wetlands on the Hauraki Plains and was given protection in 1987 when it came under the administration of the newly formed Department of Conservation.[3]

See also

References

  1. "Report for Kopuatai Peat Dome, Ramsar Site No.: 444, Wetlands International Site Reference No.: 5NZ004". Ramsar Sites Information Service. Wetlands International. 2012. Retrieved 15 January 2012.
  2. "Restiad Wetlands". Landcare Trust. 2012. Retrieved 15 January 2012.
  3. Hunt, Janet (2007). Wetlands of New Zealand. Random House New Zealand. ISBN 978-1-86941-904-2.

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Coordinates: 37°26′S 175°33′E / 37.433°S 175.550°E / -37.433; 175.550


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