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Driving force
40 members of Wild for Taranaki
Taranaki community
Four key goals
• Engage the Taranaki Community to Take Action
• Restore the Sound and Movement of our Taranaki wildlife
• Restore the Cloak of Taranaki
• Restore the Freshwater of Taranaki
“ Our vision is that by 2050 Taranaki will be restored “
How can you be involved
Like our Facebook page www.facebook.com/restoretaranaki
Attend an event i.e. World Wetlands Day 2 Feb
Join the Predator Free 2050 movement - Taranaki Regional Council
Plant native plants - Trees that Count
Tell people about us
Donate to support the work being done
Volunteer
** Create or join a Restore Community Restoration Planting Guides
Restore Communities
Restore Communities are popping up around Taranaki.Groups currently in Oakura, Inglewood, Eltham, Opunake, WaitaraAll at different stages of development
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Restore Kohanga Moa Inglewood
What is a Restore Community?
A group of people in a community working together to restore their natural environment – protect local ecosystems and native species, improve the health of water and the land.Each group decides its own focus and activities
Activities:• Set a trap in your backyard and check
traps in your community• Remove pest plants from your property
and community areas• Plant native plants to provide habitat and
improve water quality• Monitoring – recording native species• Clean-up of rubbish Rory checking traps at Tapuae
What will result?
• More native animals where people live, work and play
• Increased healthy native habitat
• Improved freshwater quality
• Greater awareness and understanding
• Healthy people sharing knowledge and resources, learning new things and working together for a common cause
Who supports Restore Communities?
Restore Communities Co-ordinatorEsther [email protected]
Her role is to:• Talk with people and listen to their
ideas• Organise community workshops –
Oakura, Waitara and one other in NP District
• Help communities develop a Plan• Organise community conservation
events
Our rivers are safe for swimming
Explore launch of riparian restoration project along length of Waimoku strea, connecting with restoration aspirations at golf course (Million metres crowdfunding?)
Develop collaborative ecological restoration plan for Tapuae walkway for the Collaborative Community Education Programme Pilot.
Reduce waste and encourage a reuse revolution
Support deployment of recycling bins in public places and ensure correct use
Support promotion of home composting and use of new organic waste collection
Encourage enable zero waste events in Oakura
Encourage businesses to reduce waste and use alternative packaging
Explore and support implementation of reuse systems – eg boomerang bags, water bottle refilling stations and coffee cup cycling.
Sustainable Food systems and sharing
Promote and encourage local food production, exploring development of a community garden and composting facility, and encourage set up of bulk food co-op.
Promote and encourage food sharing through sharing stand and crop swaps.
Community Environmental Strategy Restore Oakura is a community driven initiative that aims to equip our community with the information, tools and inspiration required to reduce their environmental impacts and restore biodiversity in their neighbourhood!
Currently, Restore Oakura exists as a concept with a Facebook page, Facebook group, driven by community champion Sam Mortensen with the support of Kaitake Community Board. The initiative was formed initially in response to the Towards Predator Free Project urban trapping workstream, as part of the wider Restore Taranaki initiative. Restore Oakura has the potential to grow to become so much more and be a shining example of what is possible in other towns around NZ.
This draft plan provides a starting point for discussions with key stakeholders, to work towards a community sustainability and restoration strategy for Oakura township and surrounds. Forming a working group and seeking support from key stakeholders – NPDC, TRC, Wild for Taranaki, Iwi, local schools and DOC are key next steps for the first half of 2019.
Low carbon transport
Promote and encourage carpooling and active transport to reduce car trips
Seek ways to increase usage of public transport options into town (Eg buses –changing time, offering subsidy .. )
Promote and encourage cycling and active transport in the village.
A healthy coastal ecosystem
Establish national litter project monitoring location with Sustainable Coastlines -(workshop planned for April 20190
Run regular community beach and park clean ups and coastal planting days
Promote responsible beach use raising awareness of risks to wildlife from dogs, vehicles.
Encourage and enable residents to be aware of, and remove pest plants on their properties; and to plant native species that provide habitat for wildlife.
Explore protection of important coastal wildlife – eg penguins and shorebirds
Allow propagation of eco-sourced species locally by expanding capability for nursery facilities (in schools, or community nursery)
NZs first predator free town
Encourage backyard predator trapping with 1 trap in every 3 backyards., traps in every backyard surrounding reserves. Identify and fill gaps in the network and encourage ongoing engagement in Towards Predator Free Project.
Encourage and enable use of citizen science tools for monitoring biodiversity-Inaturalist
Support eradication of possums in the area by encouraging reporting of possum sightings to TRC.
Support and coordinate volunteers to check traps and monitor biodiversity in reserves and walkways
Beef up trapping networks in reserves, considering including mouse control in key areas – eg Matekai Park.
Raise awareness of local threatened species and how to protect them (eggoldstripe gecko).
Restore Communities are being established and supported in partnership with Wild for Taranaki members
And thanks to sponsorship from industry
Community Boards
Become part of the movement to Restore Taranaki - we need you
www.restoretaranaki.nz
www.facebook.com/restoretaranaki
You Tube - Restore Taranaki
[email protected]: 0800 736 22Wild for Taranaki Office 47 Cloten Road, Stratford
Leigh Honnor, Environmental Lead Danielle Gibas, Member and Funding Co-ordinatorEsther Ward-Campbell, Restore Communities Co-ordinator
We’ve been championing native tree planting for nearly 30 years through our large-scale planting, restoration and environmental education projects.
Our Mission
Creating a culture of restoring, planting and protecting native trees
We want to build a movement
to see Kiwis plant millions more native trees.
We’re building a
picture of the planting
efforts in New
Zealand every year by
counting the native
trees planted by all New Zealanders.
But counting trees is not enough – we need to help increase the rate of
planting
We’ve built New Zealand’s only community marketplace connecting
funders with planters
Anyone wanting to fund native tree plantings can do so via our Marketplace and we match that funding with a planter who
needs trees
Give the gift that grows this Christmas
