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  • DONATE OR GIFT A NATIVE PLANT

      15 October 2024
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    DONATE A NATIVE PLANT: For $10 a plant, your donation will support a native plant through its propagation from a seed, to a mature plant ready to be planted out. All native plants we grow are locally eco-sourced. Learn more about our community nursery and why growing natives is so important for the biodiversity of our bush and reserves visit our website https://www.whauriver.org.nz/.

    Donating to WRCT is one of the most effective ways of supporting our work. All donations go directly to helping to grow native plants for the Whau River Catchment Bush Restoration Projects, restore native bush and improving stream water quality, run courses and helping local people to make a difference as part of our Greening the Whau Initiative. Visit https://www.whauriver.org.nz/projects to find out more about Greening the Whau.

    GIFT A TREE: If you're looking for a sustainable present, why not gift a tree for $35 that will be planted in a local reserve within the Whau River Catchment. The person receiving your gift will be sent an email with your personalised message and a Gift Certificate. Their Gift Certificate will also be sent to you so that you can print it if you wish.

    Please see our new page https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/donate-or-gift-a-native-plant

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  • What's been happening in the WRCT Native Plant Nursery

      12 December 2023
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    Thanks to a small but energetic group of FOW Volunteers plants numbers have been increasing in our Nursery with the propagation of Dianella nigra, Melicytus ramiflorus (Māhoe), Veronica (Hebe), Phormium tenax (Flax), Cordyline australis (Cabbage Tree) and other native plants.

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  • WRCT Stats for Volunteer work.

      13 October 2023

    Over the year at The Whau River Catchment Trust: July 2021 - June 2022

    Total Volunteer Hours for the year (2,854hrs)

    Total Number of Volunteers for the year (878)

    Total Number of Native Plants Planted for the year (26,731)

    ​Total Number of Volunteer Hours for the year on Litter Clean-ups. (660hrs) 20,000kg. removed.

    Animal Pest Control Total Number of Volunteer Hours for the year (378hrs)

    Possums: 15

    Rats: 32

    Mice: 1

    Other Species: 0

    Total: 48

    Total Number of Volunteer Hours for Plant Pest Control (59hrs) for the year.

    Mulching

    Total Number of Volunteer Hours for the year (227hrs)

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  • Sponsor A Native Plant

      2 October 2023
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    Did you know that for several years we were supplied with free plants from the Mayors Million Trees Programme which ceased with the election of a new Mayor. Annually we received around 20,000 native plants which went into various restoration sites around the Whau River. Now we need to fund our own plants. To achieve this plants can cost on the average $5 or more from a nursery and then we have the costs of holding the plants and preparing sites for planting. The simplest long term solution is to propagate and grow our own for use on various restoration sites around the Whau River. So 20,000 plants will cost some where in the vicinity of $100,000 to buy but are less if we grow them with Volunteer support. So help out and sponsor a plant now.

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