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Comment by Ellen on June 20, 2011 at 16:49

Anyone want to help with some planting around Mt Vic next month?

Comment by Ellen on March 2, 2011 at 23:21

Not to worry after a couple of weeks all the ivy has finally died - not a new more resilient plant afterall!

Arent all the plants growing well this year - just the right amount of rain and warm.

Comment by Tim Park on January 26, 2011 at 8:48

hey ellen, i am keen to get invovled around Mt Vic, sounds like you are doing good things, Cheers, Tim

Comment by Ellen on January 24, 2011 at 12:13

Fantastic to be actually doing something! The Owhiro Bay stream project is looking good. There are a number of other action sites around Wellington including around Tapu te Ranga marae, Ngaio gorge, Thorndon near motorway, etc. I have a project going in the town belt around Mt Vic if anyone is interested in hooking into that? Mainly weed pulling to promote Wellington natives to grow, and a bit of planting.

Comment by Andrew McKay on November 27, 2010 at 6:54

I'm currently living in Victoria, Canada and have had an amazing time here learning about the different ecosystems and the challenges that landbase actioners here face. Unsurprisingly many of the issues faced here are similar to back home: difficult relationships with city councils; uneducated public (eg dumping garden waste in forest areas and poisons into storm water systems); unregulated development etc etc etc. I've been working with Friends of Mount Douglas Park Society removing invasive English Holly and Ivy for a couple of hours each week. This group does an amazing amount of work, especially when most of the members are retirees. They have also done a huge amount of stream restoration/bio-engineering in an effort to get Coho salmon to return to the Douglas Creek. Check them out here: http://www.mountdouglaspark.ca/

Also if anyone is having trouble pulling out some tough weeds (I'm thinking gorse, juvenile tobacco plant) check out weed wrenches: http://www.weedwrench.com/weedwrench/
I've used all three sizes and they are excellent but I've never seen them in NZ.

Comment by Sam Rye on July 20, 2010 at 12:05

I'll be moving to Wellington shortly, and very keen to get out and about and make a difference, meet some people, and get to continuing the movement in Welly. Any ideas of volunteer groups etc (obviously Owhiro sounds good)?

I've been working for an organisation called Conservation Volunteers (www.conservationvolunteers.co.nz) for 2 years, there's no office in Wellington at the moment, but I hope that may change soon - so any projects people have in the pipeline, would love to hear. CV come at conservation differently - we recruit volunteers from around NZ & internationally and bring them to projects throughout Australia & NZ.

So get thinking and give me a holler. Cheers!

Comment by Andrew McKay on July 10, 2010 at 16:03

I spent four and a half hours today with about ten others from Friends of Owhiro Stream clearing weeds from around plantings and planting 150 new seedlings. They have been together for eight years but there is still plenty more work to do and hundreds of trees to still plant. Get involved if your in Wellington! http://www.owhirostream.org.nz/

Comment by Alex T on July 9, 2010 at 20:17

What a cool group, much called for I think.
I will follow with interest what people are doing and try to join in where ever possible. Thanks so much Andrew!

Comment by Andrew McKay on July 9, 2010 at 20:07

Photos from yesterday

http://intersect.ning.com/photo/albums/owhiro-stream

Comment by Andrew McKay on July 9, 2010 at 19:49

So to kick it off, yesterday I spent some time down at Owhiro Stream in Wellington just beside the turn off to Happy Valley Dump collecting rubbish out of the stream that would otherwise choke the stream and eventually end up in Taputeranga Marine Reserve. I got three black-sacks full of trash in just under an hour, and there is plenty more to go!

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