Members of the Banks Peninsula Native Forest/Climate Change group this month met with Climate Change Minister James Shaw to outline the difficulties they face. Projects that followed in Hinewai’s footsteps allowed native bush to grow back on its own without any planting, using gorse as a nurse plant. But members told Shaw many were struggling to meet ETS guidelines.
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Rod Donald Banks Peninsula Trust manager Suky Thompson makes her way down the Te Ahu Pātiki block. The trust needed money from carbon credits to help pay for ongoing fencing and pest control but in an assessment previous landowners had done, just 62 of its 500ha would qualify, manager Suky Thompson said.
Frustrated farmers giving up on costly native land restoration
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Five years of work planned to start returning Te Ahu Pātiki back into bush
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The Press s Buy the Hill campaign is in support of the Rod Donald Trust s vision to buy Christchurch s highest peak to secure public access and the regeneration of native forest. (First published May 26, 2021)
An invasive weed interlocked in constant battle with farmers will be key to transforming Christchurch’s highest peaks back into native bush.
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The Press helped the Rod Donald Banks Peninsula Trust crowdfund the last $120,000 it needed for its Te Ahu Pātiki project through Givealittle. The charitable trust had been raising $1.5 million to buy a 500-hectare block of farmland between Mt Herbert (Te Ahu Pātiki) and Mt Bradley and bring it into public ownership.