With a small grant from Golden Bay Community Trust, PDVET has started expanding its trapping network from the Grove to meet the sea. The Motupipi estuary, sandspit and golf course provide a great space to get started with the support of the Takaka Golf Club, Friends of East Mohua and TDC.

A collaborative effort with Project Janszoon in the fight against feral goats in the stunning landscapes of Golden Bay.

Preserving The Grove’s Iconic Ecosystem: Project De-Vine’s Trapping Initiative

The project is called the “Restoring and Protecting Flora” Project. The Nature Conservancy has co-partnered with the Kotahitanga mō te Taiao Alliance – see background notes below. It involves wide-scale organised weed management across 35,000 hectares of the northern South Island and will explore the possibility of expanding the protection of some sites through QEII covenanting. Funding of $6 million through Jobs for Nature will employ 29 people with mobilised teams who can work across different locations and provide support to public and private landowners in their aim to leave an environmental legacy we can all share.

Onekaka to Parapara to Milnthorpe Reserve – Multiple Invasive pest plant & tree control programme

To prevent the spread of Old man’s beard, Banana passion vine, Climbing asparagus & Yellow jasmine along the Golden Bay coast & into Kahurangi National Park. Assessments of invasive plants and follow up control work.

We’re excited to share that Project De-Vine has secured a grant from the DOC Community Fund and the Motueka Community Board for controlling pest vines and wilding Douglas Fir. Covering the area from Riwaka River to Marahau and Abel Tasman National Park, the project aims to assist around 40 larger properties over three years. Landowners seeking assistance can contact Project De-Vine Trust. Stay tuned for details on a working bee in the autumn and a helicopter survey for pine plantations.

Multi-species weed control in Golden Bay, focusing on Management Units MU-E and MU-G1. Assessments identified 101 clear properties out of 170. The three-year plan, backed by grants, aims to offer controlled work to 30 property owners, ensuring ongoing weed control and protecting adjoining national parks.

Property assessments of invasive plants and follow up control work between Abel Tasman and Kahurangi National Parks in Golden Bay

Onekaka to Parapara to Milnthorpe Reserve – Multiple Invasive pest plant & tree control programme.

The Motupipi River is a beautiful Takaka spring-fed river that passes near to highways and roads, through dairy farms and residential properties on its way to the sea. The Motupipi River has had wilding crack willow growing along the river that had spread into the river bed, choking the river and reducing its flow.

Together the community is working together to achieve a long-lasting regeneration of water quality and riparian margins of the Motupipi River and its catchment that we can all be proud of.

We were thrilled in June 2021 to receive the $700,000 JFNCCF grant to employ a team in Golden Bay that will advance our invasive plant and tree control work goals. PDVET will train people in a range of eco-restoration jobs, giving them a usable range of skills to continue working in this field of work.

It is for three years and will employ 3.5 FTEs per annum in Golden Bay.

Restoration of Motupipi Sandspit by pest plant and exotic tree control