Location: West Auckland
Availability: Weekdays on booking through Volunteering Auckland
Team size: 5 - 40

Description:

This Trust is working towards healthier streams along the Whau river through community participation and kaitiakitanga (guardianship and protection). They deliver a wide range of community-based environmental projects, principally in collaboration with the Auckland Council and other key stakeholders within the catchment, to return the river and its streams to a healthy condition for future generations to live, work and play in this irreplaceable taonga.

One of these projects is the development of Te Whau Coastal Pathway project which, when completed, will be a 16km long shared walkway linking 33 reserves, esplanades, parks and cul-de-sacs along the western edge of the Whau River. Stage one of the walkway has been completed within three reserves and this project involves putting in the amenity planting to accompany the 3m wide shared pathway.

Teams will spend a full or half day planting (in the winter months), mulching to protect the new plantings or weeding until the new plants are established. The work is alongside the pathway. If we don't currently have project work on the pathway we have lots of other projects in the Whau Catchment that will help restore our coastal edges and waterways, we may direct you to one of these projects.