Forest & Bird member Jill Visser set up a volunteer group to restore a former wetland on the Kāpiti Coast because she wanted to take hands-on action to help mitigate climate change.
Forest & Bird is concerned about the risk to endemic Westland petrels from a proposed industrial-scale mining operation south of Punakaiki. By Suzanne Hills, chair of Forest & Bird’s West Coast Branch.
A short easy walk, there and back, with spectacular gorge and river scenery, dryland shrubs and native fungi growing in the damper spots. Maybe even a falcon!
This election is critical. To protect the people and places we love, we need urgent climate action
now – and leaders that will stand up for our future.
Forest & Bird has teamed up with 26 New Zealand writers and artists to shine a light on the importance of volunteers working at-place to restore nature for future generations.
