Jobs For Nature Community Conservation Funds Grant (JFNCCF)

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.

We will be sending out reports to keep landowners informed of our progress on their property and its relation to our other work in their area. This will help to encourage landowners to keep up their control of these fast-growing invasive plants.

We will provide updates on our work with posts on our website and social media and press releases.

There is frequent reporting to the funders.

Staff training – growsafe and first aid will be provided for those that stay more than six months.

Darren Foxwell at Takaka DOC Office is the Delivery Manager for this contract and will oversee our work.

Finish date – three years from final signing – August 2024.

They will learn:

• a wide range of weed control skills, which will nearly complete our goal of providing three years of control work throughout Golden Bay.
• set up a trapping scheme in and around the Grove Scenic Reserve
• kill wilding pines on a landscape scale in Golden Bay. See details below:

Wilding Pine work 2022 and 2023

PDVET has long recognised that wilding pine spread was happening in and around Golden Bay. The Trust carried out control work for QEII a few years ago in a covenanted walkway and learnt the skills required to carry out mass drilling of mature pines and control their seedlings in a very rough karst landscape.

Funding has only recently become possible for this work on a landscape scale.

With the JFNCCF grant, we have assessed over 150 properties in the halo of ATNP and KNP. This wilding pine work will start this winter and take place in Clifton and Craigieburn.

We plan to visit six properties in Clifton with an estimated 155 large pines over 943ha

Craigieburn nine properties with an estimated 988 large pines over 1160ha

This does not include any smaller pines that will be poisoned/cut down that cannot be identified on the aerial map.

We will have an ArcGIS wilding pine map setup by August. This will allow us to track the pines across Golden Bay – including species type. We have identified where large pines are using ArcGIS maps; this is our starting point for our work. While our teams are in the field, they can confirm these identified trees and add new ones that are not large enough to be seen from satellite photos. See the example of the map below.

Pines Map