Dune Plants

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 […]

Planting at Pukehina

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 […]

Maketu Spit Working Bee

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 […]

Myrtle Rust found in Bay of Plenty

Photo source: palmers.co.nz Myrtle rust has been found in a private garden in Te Puke. Please check out this link and stay vigilant. It is a very serious fungal disease that affects […]

Bittern Release Update

MOWS member Sheelagh Leary, DOC ranger Karl McCarthy, and Hamish Dean, from the Bay of Plenty Regional Council tracking the bittern. Bittern are New Zealand’s largest swamp bird, and are […]