Season 1
Our planting season this year at the Pūkorokoro Shorebird Centre, Robert Findlay Wildlife Reserve was a busy one. On different days, volunteers, locals, and supporters turned up ready to work and together we got 581 native plants into the ground. The Reserve is a mix of chenier (shell) ridges, wetland hollows and salt marsh, and the planting part of a biodiversity enhancement project to create a diverse habitat, mainly replacing exotic sedges and grasses with a mix of native saltmarsh shrubs and low growing trees. The aim is to eventually support mātāta /NZ fernbird in the revegetated areas, while keeping the open spaces and mudflats available for the many migratory species that use them as high-tide roosts.
What Went In
- Oioi/Jointed Wire Rush (Apodasmia similis) - 105
- Saltmarsh Ribbonwood (Plagianthus divaricatus) - 43
- Coprosma proprinqua - 20
- Coastal Tree Daisy (Olearia solandri) - 29
- Knobby Clubrush (Ficinia nodosa) - 110
- Giant Umbrella Sedge (Cyperus ustulatus) - 50
- Flax (Phormium tenax) - 32
- Mountain flax (Phorium Cookianum) - 26
- Cabbage Tree (Cordyline australis) - 8
- Ngaio (Myophorum laetum) - 36
- Karo (Pittosporum crassifolium) - 15
- Pohuehue (Muehlenbeckia complexa) - 55
- Pohuehue (Muehlenbeckia axiliaris) - 12
- Red Matipo (Myrsine australis) - 6
- Coastal Spear grass (Austrostipa stipoides) - 25
- Hebe (Hebe Stricta) - 15
Total planted: 581 natives.
41 of these were from the GOOD FOR YOUR SOUL - Kaitiaki iniaitive.
540 of these were from the Department of Conservation Community Fund Grant.
Backed By
This season was supported by:
- Opito Bay Salt Company
- Twentymans Funeral Services
- Destination Hauraki Coromandel
- Visitors, locals, and the wider tourism community
