Kopuatai Peat Dome

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Kopuatai Peat Dome at 10,201ha, is the largest unaltered restiad peat bog in New Zealand and is also unique globally.
This area is gazetted as a Wetland Management Reserve under the Conservation Act 1987 and managed by the Department of Conservation.
Ramsar site no. 444, listed 4 December 1989 Location: Hauraki Plains, 70 km northeast of Hamilton.

Fifty four species of birds have been recorded in Kopuatai (27 protected, 17 unprotected and 10 game birds). The threatened Australasian bittern (Botaurus poiciloptilus) is found in the wetland along with banded rail (Rallus philipensis assimillis), marsh crake (Porzana pusilla affinis) and the North Island fernbird (Bowdleria punctata vealeae).

The waters of Kopuatai contain a number of important fish species including black mudfish (Neochanna diversus) and the endemic long finned eels (Anguilla dieffencachii).