Location: Rosebank Peninsula Coastal Restoration Project Avondale and along the Te Whau Pathway.
Availability: Weekends and Weekdays on booking through Volunteering Auckland
Team size: 10 - 30

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 focusing on ecological restoration and conservation, principally in collaboration with Auckland Council and other key stakeholders within the catchment.

This project involves saving recently planted baby native trees from some nasty exotic weeds. The weeds can overwhelm and kill the young tree seedlings. This intervention in the first couple of years of their life ensures that the trees can grow up big and strong, and will eventually outgrow the weeds and be able to look after themselves. These are future forests providing habitat and food for many other native species of birds, insects and lizards.

If your team would love to work outdoors, come and spend some time releasing baby trees from weeds. It is very rewarding work.