Pūkorokoro Miranda Naturalists' Trust
New Zealand conservation organisation
The Miranda Naturalists' Trust is a charitable trust, that established and maintains the Pūkorokoro Shorebird Centre, located at Pūkorokoro / Miranda on the western shore of the Firth of Thames on the North Island of New Zealand. The Pūkorokoro Miranda Naturalists' Trust (PMNT) was formed in 1975 to encourage people to visit the coastline and appreciate its wide range of flora and fauna. The trust promotes education and public awareness of coastal ecology, shorebird research and conservation. Work done by the trust, to increase knowledge of shorebird migration, includes bird banding, research and data exchange. The Shorebird Centre has information displays on waders and a library and helps raise funds for the trust's work through their shop sales and visitor accommodation.
Miranda
Pūkorokoro Miranda is on the western shore of Tīkapa Moana the Firth of Thames where the Hauraki Plains drains into the Hauraki Gulf. The wetlands of the Firth of Thames consist of extensive intertidal mudflats (about 8500 hectares), which are the feeding grounds for flocks of migratory wading birds. Along the Pūkorokoro Miranda coast, a chenier plain with large shell banks formed over the past 4500 years, and provides roosting areas for the waders at high tide. It is one of the most significant Holocene coastal strand plains in the world.
In 1990 the area was listed as a wetland of international importance under the Ramsar Convention.
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