Article – Susan Botting – Local Democracy Reporter More than 20 million trees and other natives will be planted around New Zealands biggest harbour in the groundbreaking $200 million dollar Kaipara Moana Remediation project. Ruawai on the shores of Kaipara Harbour Alan Wilcox, a senior manager for …
More than 20 million trees and other natives will be planted around New Zealand’s biggest harbour in the groundbreaking $200 million dollar Kaipara Moana Remediation project.
Ruawai on the shores of Kaipara Harbour
Alan Wilcox, a senior manager for the Kaipara Moana Remediation interim management unit, said planting the trees was the foundation of a new intergenerational approach.
Ruawai
on the shores of Kaipara
Harbour
Alan Wilcox, a senior
manager for the Kaipara Moana Remediation interim management
unit, said planting the trees was the foundation of a new
intergenerational approach.
First plantings are planned
this month. They will be the start of New Zealand’s
biggest harbour restoration programme across 6000 square
kilometres of land with more than 8000km of
waterways.
Tame Te Rangi, chairman of the
governing body Kaipara Moana Remediation joint committee,
said it was positive to see the community working towards
improving the health of the harbour.
He said two
groups had already applied to be involved in harbour
Twenty million trees part of wide-ranging Kaipara Harbour restoration project
3 May, 2021 06:00 AM
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The Northern Wairoa River flows past Dargaville Photo / Susan Botting
Susan Botting is the Local Democracy Reporter for Northlandsusan.botting@northernadvocate.co.nz
More than 20 million trees and other natives will be planted around New Zealand s biggest harbour in the groundbreaking $200 million Kaipara Moana Remediation project.
Alan Wilcox, a senior manager for the Kaipara Moana Remediation interim management unit, said planting the 20 million trees was the foundation of a new intergenerational approach.
The first plantings are planned this month. They will be the start of New Zealand s biggest large-scale harbour restoration programme - across 6000sq km of land with more than 8000km of waterways.
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Signs say farm run-off is to blame for “cloudy” water at this waterfall but it s been years since authorities tested it.
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