Volunteers plant more than 800 trees
Community groups came together for a working bee recently and planted hundreds of trees in Tawa’s Bush Reserve
Corporate volunteers joined forces with local conservation group, Friends of Tawa Bush Reserve (FOTBR) last month, planting more than 800 trees.
Two teams from BNZ Closed for Good, and the Treasury, built on their contributions from previous years, planting the native trees with FOTBR in Tawa’s Woodburn Reserve.
The two corporate volunteer sessions, saw the trees planted in just in two weeks.
FOTBR Working Bee co-ordinator Richard Herbert said it was a fantastic effort that made a material difference to the volume of trees that FOBTR would have been able to plant this year.
“The end result was that the revegetation of Woodburn Reserve’s pasture margins could be completed earlier than anticipated,” he said.
“This will in future years greatly add to the bushed area of the reserve.”
Herbert said it would also support the native ecology that exists in an otherwise urban community.
FOTBR President, Wayne Pincott said the various tracks were developed in partnership with Wellington City Council and were enjoyed by Tawa and Wellington residents alike.
At present much of the track passes through pasture and as the more than 5000 trees planted over the last 10 years, continue to grow, the track will steadily transform into a bush walk.
