Make a Lizard Friendly Garden

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Written By Kim Manunui

We have over 120 native lizard species in Aotearoa and about half of those species are endangered. You can help them out! Provide food and habitat for them and set some predator traps.

Humans love to ‘tame’ nature. We mow our lawns and weed our gardens. We all like to have a tidy backyard. Unfortunately, our special lizard species prefer a different environment.

Choose a warm sunny area of your garden to turn into a ‘lizard lounge.’ If you have a place with shrubs, flax and tussock that the lizards can hide in and under, that would be ideal. Lizards also like hiding in cracks and having cover, so add rotting logs, rocks, bark, tiles, pieces of corrugated iron, tunnels/pipes, and pieces of wood. A little bowl of water for them to drink would be great too! Plants with nectar and berries nearby will help provide food for the lizards. If you are really keen to establish a lizard village, you could protect them with a backyard trap and monitor them with a tracking tunnel! Learn more about that if you’re interested HERE.

If you are interested in learning more about New Zealand’s fascinating native lizards and tuatara, go to our Lizards and Tuatara Online Nature Classroom, packed full of information and activities for kids (and adults too of course!).

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This awesome resource is from Predator Free NZ. Find more information about it and download it here: https://predatorfreenz.org/stories/create-lizard-friendly-garden/

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Kim Manunui

Hi, I’m Kim and I work with a great team to help individuals, as well as small and not so small businesses get their message, product and services to the world using digital media and creating wonderful websites that don’t cost the earth.

I was born in Canada, and grew up around Vancouver and the mountains of British Columbia. My love of pristine environments led me to New Zealand and eventually to the mountains, lakes and rivers of the central North Island which is home. My family’s heritage is here, and it’s from here that Korio traverses the planet.

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