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Motutapu's next aim in the next 2 or 3 three years is to cover the island in dense bush and populate the area with native animals and birds.

Around the beginning of the year groups of volunteers go to Motutapu Island and pull out weeds like the moth plant, the thistle and the ink weed,

The moth plant grows up like a vine and wraps around all of the native plants which strangles and kills them.

The thistle can hurt or poison native creatures.

The ink weed grows underground and poisons other plants with the ink.

It is better to pull out the weed while they are young so that they don’t grow hard like wood and become difficult to pull out.

In around June the Island will be closed down to public for restoration.

Three or four helicopters will drop down poisonous bright blue bait on the floor for possums and rats to eat they will die soon after to let native creatures settle in.

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