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The call has gone out far and wide to volunteers that their efforts will be needed to help with a major planting day at Baddeleys Beach Creek on Saturday, July 15.
The annual event is organised by the Baddeleys and Campbells Beach Landcare group, which would normally plant 200 to 300 trees.
But this month, thanks to a grant from Trees that Count, the group has 3000 trees waiting to go in the ground.
An organiser, Sue Crawshay, says the word has been put out to family and friends, and she knows of one group of 20 volunteers who will be coming from Auckland. Lunch will be provided.
“The landcare group has been working in this area for about a decade,” Sue says. “The group has been busy forming a track along the creek and working like demons on removing gorse, woolly nightshade, convolvulus and tradescantia from the site, as well as trapping and baiting to remove weasels, stoats, possums, rabbits and rats.”
So far this year they have caught 24 weasels, one stoat, 162 rats, 23 possums, four hedgehogs and 130 mice.
Volunteers are asked to meet at the Baddeleys Beach Reserve at 9am.
Info: Sue Crawshay 09 524 0414 or 021 929 029.
