Appendix Two Coastal location of streams facilitate good access for juvenile whitebait (eg; banded kokopu). Low native fish diversity. 3. Plants Kirkiane lla ‘glauca ’ (r)(c); muttonbird groundsel (r); Cooks scurvy grass (r); fierce lancewood (r); Anemanthele lessoniana (r); Sophora ‘Cook Strait’; Carex trifi da (r) sea blite; Melicytus obovatus ; large-leaved milktree; Atriplex buc hana nii (r); Carex testacea ; Scandia g (r); Hebe aff. urvilleana eniculata (c); Cook Strait bristle tussock (r); Hebe ‘parviflora’ (r); Puccinellia walkeri (r); Crassula moschata; Acip ylla squarr osa; Craspedia uniflora var. maritima ; rengarenga. (c)=endemic to Cook Strait ecosystem (r)=rare in the Marlborough Sounds, or nationally threatened. 4. Animals Nationally high concentration of rare, relictual and endemic fauna vulnerable to predation and/or collection. Cook Strait tuatara (c); Brothers Islands tuatara (c); king shag (r)(c); fluttering shearwater; fairy prion; diving petrel; sooty shearwater; flesh footed shearwater; white-faced storm petrel; little blue penguin; Hamiltons frog (r)(c); speckled skink (r); Duvaucels gecko (r); striped gecko (r)(e); green-spotted skink; Marlborough green gecko (r)(e); flax weevil (r); ngaio weevil (r)(c); Cook Strait click beetle (e); Cook Strait giant weta (r); Mecodema punctellum (r)(c); M. c. costell um (r); Odontria nesobia (r)(e); peripatus, Rhytida ‘stephenensis’ (r); kakariki (yellow-crowned parakeet) (r); South Island robin; slug ( Pseudaneitea schauinslandi) (r)(e). (c)=endemic to Cook Strait ecosystem (e)=endemic to Marlborough Sounds (r)=rare in the Marlborough Sounds, or nationally threatened. C. Priorities and Potential for Restoration Terrestrial Values Much of the natural cover of the ecosystem is gone. The severe maritime climate impedes the recovery of indigenous vegetation. Maintenance of predator-free status of islands and facilitation of eradication of predators from others. Maintenance of shrublands to provide the vital first stage in forest restoration. Recognition of importance of mainland peninsulas as potential “mainland island” restoration areas. Integrity of wild landscape experience vulnerable to signs of modification and disruption eg; land or sea structures and plantation forestry. Active revegetation on the most important islands vital for restoration. Freshwater Values Restoration of freshwater habitat constrained by topography, and few areas worthy of restoration. App Two - 27