Habitat Restoration Heroes - Nature Needs You!

The Whau River Catchment Trust is working towards healthier habitat throughout the Whau river catchment area through community participation and kaitiakitanga (guardianship and protection). We deliver a wide range of community-based environmental projects focusing on ecological restoration and conservation, principally in collaboration with Auckland Council and other key stakeholders within the catchment.

Nature Needs You! We are on the search for Habitat Restoration Heroes. Ecological restoration is the restoration of habitat for native birds, lizards and insects, many of which are in decline in Aotearoa New Zealand. Besides planting new native plants (from big trees to low growing groundcover, depending on the situation), a key element of restoration is to manage environmental weeds (otherwise known as pest plants). Pest plants are exotic species (foreign to Aotearoa) which, if left unchecked, will kill native species and destroy habitat. Some of the worst pest plants are vines which climb up trees and…