Wellington Community Planting Day - Sponsored by Honda
Event description
THIS EVENT IS NOW AT CAPACITY, SORRY WE CAN'T HOST YOU THIS TIME!
Join us to plant 2,000 native trees.
Trees That Count and Honda New Zealand will be partnering with Conservation Volunteers New Zealand (CVNZ) to plant native trees on this site.
CVNZ, along with Ōwhiro Catchment Collective (ŌCC), a coordinated community-led initiative, to improve the ecological health and human well-being of the catchment. The Ōwhiro stream catchment (953 ha) is located in southern Wellington and is the only daylighted (unpiped) stream on the south coast.
It is largely urban in the northern and eastern parts of the catchment and bounded by the ecosanctuary Zealandia, Te Kopahou Reserve and landfills to the west. The stream flows into Ōwhiro Bay, one of only four large stream estuaries in the Wellington Region, and one of the few with known inanga spawning. The terminus of the stream is the Taputeranga Marine Reserve, an area of high marine biodiversity. The Ōwhiro bay shoreline provides habitat for a diverse range of seabirds and shorebirds and is also potential blue penguin habitat.
The ŌCC is a gathering of community groups and mana whenua that are working together towards improving the ecological health and human well-being of the catchment. ŌCC (Friends of Ōwhiro Stream, Ōwhiro Bay Residents Association, Southern Environmental Association (SEA), Stream Team, mana whenua, Friends of Taputeranga) formed in order to coordinate activities and advocate for a catchment scale approach to improving Te Mana o te Wai.