Kahurangi National Park is the country’s second largest national park. It was established in 1996 and is 4520km2 in area. Its pristine forest remains a place where the presence of ancient Gondwanaland and its magical birdlife can still be sensed. But extinct species like the giant moa, the largest ever land bird, and the enormous Haast’s Eagle, with its 3m wingspan, are not pre-human creatures fossilized in the landscape. Instead they are recent bygones, who as little as 600 years ago lived in the forests of Kahurangi alongside people. Today visitors can still see moa bones in the Honeycomb Caves. The Heaphy Track is one of the Great Walks of New Zealand and is where hikers may hear and even sometimes see the great spotted kiwi. Kahurangi is also home to more than half of New Zealand’s 2400 native plant species including more than 80% of its alpine varieties. The park’s flora is the most diverse of any national park in New Zealand, and includes 67 plant species found nowhere else in the world.