Rejuvenating the mauri and ecosystem health of Te Waihora

Since 2018 the Department of Conservation has worked in partnership with Environment Canterbury, Te Uru Rākau’s One Billion Trees Programme and Jobs for Nature to restore Te Waihora’s wetland margins.
This landscape scale restoration has achieved 350,000 trees planted, 1,000 + hectares of active ecological weed control and 350 hectares of habitat protected with predator control.
The restoration programme is paving the way for our vision of rejuvenating the mauri and ecosystem health of Te Waihora. It has created a legacy that will lay the foundation for continued collaboration in enhancing and protecting the indigenous biodiversity of the wider Te Waihora catchment.

[@kevinjpluck]

Ka pai! So great to see the huge mahi being done. So much more to go! Tax well spent!

[@nikiTricoteuse]

Nice to see this work being done. I hope they "unstraighten" some of those waterways and get some wetlands back as soon as possible. There's an Australian man doing amazing work in previously drought vulnerable land by undoing the straightening that was done by early European settlers who were ignorant of land management outside Europe. Stunning to realise how important the natural course of streams and rivers are to the environment. Very interesting doco on KZbin by the ABC - Natural sequence farming: How Peter Andrews rejuvenates drought- struck land | Australian Story

[@uggali]

Meanage🙌

[@oceanwanderer8065]

👍 I do hope you succeed.

[@patrick247two]

Bring back all the wet lands.