We had an amazing morning for our Breakfast with the Gulls event on Saturday. The forecast rain stayed away, and we had a fantastic turnout with around 62 people taking part in our guided trips over on the Spit, and at least 75 people coming to support us altogether. A huge thank you to everyone […]

We were privileged to be invited to be part of the celebration of the Te Maru o Kaituna Strategy celebration on Sunday the 21st September.  Te Maru o Kaituna River Authority is a co-governance partnership mandated to restore, protect, and enhance the environmental, cultural, and spiritual health and well-being of the Kaituna River.  It is […]

This just goes to show what an amazing job the plants do of holding the dunes together. This is at Newdicks Beach where the dunes get a regular battering from storm surges, but the pingao and spinifex are fantastic at securing the sand, and keeping the dunes intact.  Dunes are our first line of defence […]

370 new plants have been put in next to Pukehina Surf Club to cover the area where a new septic tank has been contructed. Lets hope they all do well and grow in nicely. Many thanks to our enthusiastic planting team!

We had a good turn out to our working bee on Maketu Spit last weekend. Seventeen people planted two hundred trees on the estuary margin, and helped to fix the pest deflection fence. They were treated to the sight of a flock of Royal Spoonbills using the wetland in the area that used to be […]