Waiatarua Reserve is a community-run native reserve at 98 Abbotts Way in Meadowbank, Auckland, in the middle of the city. A volunteer community group plants native trees and shrubs for birds and insects, and runs a pest control programme with Auckland Council Parks to control rats and possums. The reserve is a place for walking dogs, running and family play, and it aims to bring back forest and wetland birds, butterflies and insects. The group welcomes new members and volunteers for plantings and pest control, and the website says it hopes to see native wood pigeon kererū and red admiral butterflies there.