{"id":564791,"date":"2026-08-10T15:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T15:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/564791\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T15:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T15:22:14","slug":"takes-the-cake-conservation-groups-celebrate-with-sweet-creations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/564791\/","title":{"rendered":"Takes the cake: Conservation groups celebrate with sweet creations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Community conservation groups in Hauraki and Coromandel have celebrated decades of mahi by whipping up some creative culinary creations \u2013 including a cake featuring a stoat caught in a trap.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A few of our local conservation groups have been celebrating some pretty amazing milestones recently, and they have done it in the sweetest way possible,&#8221; Department of Conservation Hauraki-Coromandel said on social media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These conservation-themed cakes are a great reminder of the passion, creativity and dedication within our Hauraki-Coromandel communities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Habitat Tuateawa marked 30 years of community conservation with a cake dotted with kiwi footprints.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/habitat-tuateawas-kiwi-cake-source-habitat-tuateawa-4C7NJUBDTNC7NEQUABKHMJ6BQE.jpg\" alt=\"Habitat Tuateawa's kiwi cake. (Source: Habitat Tuateawa)\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">Habitat Tuateawa&#8217;s kiwi cake. (Source: Habitat Tuateawa) (Source: Supplied)<\/p>\n<p>Thames Coast Kiwi Care, meanwhile, celebrated 20 years of community conservation with an aptly-designed cake featuring a stoat caught in a trap.<\/p>\n<p>Predator Free Whangapoua&#8217;s creative juices were flowing, bringing the community together at their predator free day with a cake resembling a possum on its back and decorated with p\u014dhutukawa flowers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/a-possum-cake-decorated-with-pohutukawa-flowers-source-preda-SWGOBIJ2S5HPNNNSUC7F56TKTQ.jpg\" alt=\"A possum cake decorated with p&#x14D;hutukawa flowers. (Source: Predator Free Whangapoua)\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">A possum cake decorated with p\u014dhutukawa flowers. (Source: Predator Free Whangapoua) (Source: Supplied)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These cakes look almost too good to eat, almost,&#8221; DOC said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thank you to all the volunteers and community champions working hard to protect our native species and special places. Community conservation is something worth celebrating.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Community conservation groups in Hauraki and Coromandel have celebrated decades of mahi by whipping up some creative culinary&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1389,144,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-564791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-conservation","tag-food-drink","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}