Jean S Fleming ONZM CRSNZ Professor Emeritus of Science Communication, talks on "The Kapiti Coast Biodiversity Project" - restoring habitats and bringing people together in nature. The original project was funded from 2015 to 2018 by the Ministry for the Environment. Three environmental groups came together under the leadership of the late John Lancashire, to trap predators, monitor birds, lizards and weta and to restore wetland, bush and riparian strips along the streams running through Queen Elizabeth Park. Six teams of volunteers helped restore rare dune ecologies, plant thousands of trees, line creeks and drains with Carex grasses, and monitor native fish, weta and bird numbers, including korora (little penguin). The group is now incorporated and beginning to look for funding for new projects, in collaboration with environmental groups throughout the Coast.
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