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
Sediment loading in Kaipara Harbour tributary.
Photo: LDR / Susan Botting
Kaipara Moana Remediation (KMR) interim management unit senior manager Alan Wilcox said planting the trees was the foundation of a new intergenerational approach.
First plantings for the programme are planned this month - across 6000sq km of land with more than 8000km of waterways.
Tame Te Rangi, chairperson 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 improvement through riparian planting and other efforts - the Wairua River group catchment group in Northland and the Hoteo River catchment group in Auckland.
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