Marlborough Sounds Resource Management Plan Map Site Status Ecological Value Key 3/05 D’Urville Island Reserves 2 Free of possums and wild goats. Four species of Mistletoe. Semi-exposed coastal scrub, shelered forest, pure beech forest . t Ultramafic vegetation. Sand spurge (rare), a hebe varie ty found only on mineral belt. Cook Strait bristle tussock (rare endemi c). New Zealand falcon nationally vulnerab( le), bats, land snail, kaka (rare). 3/06 West Coast Bluffs, D’Urville Island 2 Relatively unmodified coastal cliffs and associated maritime vegetation. Drought tolerant stunted and wind shorn storm vegetation. Large-leafed milk tree may be present (rare). Tall coastal forest pockets. Serpentine rock and associated vegetation. Possum free. Little blue penguin, spotted and pied shags. 3/15 Islands Offshore (aggregate), 2 Cooks scurvy grass, Tupeia mistletoe and D’Urville Island possibly mutton bird, groundsel (all threatened). Shearwaters, prions, diving petrels (breeding on some island s). Diverse lizard fauna, fur sea l haulout si tes. Largely pest free 3/16 Whakatere - Papanui 3 Fierce lancewood (locally distributed), large - leafed milk tree (regionally rare). Shearwaters and penguins . Possum free. 3/17 Jag Rocks (Nga Kiore), 3 Coastal vegetation cover. Fairy prions and Outer Marlborough Sounds other seabird nesting . Predator free refuge for reptiles and in verte brates. 3/18 Trio’s North, Outer Marlborough Sounds Tuatara. King shag colony (endangered). Cooks scurvey grass, Duvaucels gec ko. G iant weta. Seabirds. Fragile due to burr ows. Predator free. 3/18 Trio’s Middle, Outer Marlborough Sounds Tuatara, large burrowing seabird population (shearwaters, prions diving petrels). Cook Strait click beetle. Cooks scurvy grass. Large -leafed milk tree. Excellent example of seabird based small island ecosystem. Extremely fragile due to bird burrows. Predator free. 3/18 Trio’s South, Outer Marlborough Sounds Tuatara, Cook Strait click beetle. Cooks scurvy grass. Good example of small island ecosystem. Fragile due to bird burrows. Predator free . 3/19 Inner Chetwode Island Cooks scurvy grass (endangered), sand spurge (Nukuwaiata), Outer Sounds (rare). Tupeia mistletoe (nationally rare). South Island robin, South Island kaka (regionally). Fierce lancewood. Excellent restoration pote ntial. the Outer With Chetwode, the mo ecologically significant st of all South Islands. 3/20 Outer Chetwode Island 2 South Island robin (regionally rare). Diverse (Te Kakaho), Outer Sounds coastal vegetati on. Cooks scurvy grass (endangered) and sand spurge (nationally rare). Tupei a, mistletoe and f ierce lancewood (nationall y rare). Sounds sca rab beetle, click beetl lax weevil and land snail (nationally e, f rare ). Most ecologically significant islands in Sounds. Predator free. App B - 6