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Frustrated farmers 'giving up' on costly native bush restoration

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. ALDEN WILLIAMS/Stuff 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

Mission to bring tūī back to Christchurch - the only city without the native

Its second event took place on Tuesday, with a mini forest of 300 native plants established at the Ara Institute of Canterbury’s central city campus. Christchurch Foundation chief executive Amy Carter said Christchurch was the only city in New Zealand that did not have tūī. Warwick Tempero/Supplied Canterbury is only region in New Zealand where there isn’t a common population of tūī. “We don’t know why tūī died out in Canterbury . it’s the only region in New Zealand where there isn’t a really common population. “Some breeding pairs were reintroduced to [Banks] Peninsula a number of years ago by the Department of Conservation and the Banks Peninsula Conservation Trust, and they’re starting to spread. But what we need is to have more food that they like to eat on this side of the hill, to bring them over from the peninsula.”

Mission to bring tūī back to Christchurch ramps up

Christchurch is NZ's only city without tūī - but it is hoped new plantings of tūī kai may lure them back.