As well as being contracted to complete over $1 million of landscaping on the Rangiriri section of the Waikato Expressway, Natural Habitats was contracted to restore the culturally significant Rangiriri Paa.
The paa site was the key landmark in the 1863 Battle of Rangiriri, which was the first major engagement in the invasion of the Waikato, during the New Zealand Land Wars. It was severed by the construction of the then SH1 in the early 1960s.
