41 - Canterbury's Green Islands: Planting stepping stones for native biodiversity
Rewilding In ActionShow Notes
I’m often amazed by natures' ability to recover by itself when given a chance. However with less than 1% native vegetation, the Canterbury Plains is a good candidate for some planting to kickstart natural native forest regeneration.
Te Ara Kakariki has a restoration goal of restoring native biodiversity through planting native forest stepping stones or 'Greendots' to help birds disperse seed and expand native forest.
For this episode I’ve come to a Greendot near Tai Tapu close to the base of the Canterbury Plains to talk with the Co-Chairs of Te Ara Kakariki, Craig Pauling and Peter Joyce who is also the owner of this property and its Greendot. Join me, Maureen Howard, as I find out more about Te Ara Kakariki’s mission and methods.
Many thanks to Pōhatu penguins for kindly sponsoring this episode (www.pohatu.co.nz).
This episode contains the bird calls of kakariki Yellow-crowned parakeet recorded by Rob van Bemmelen, XC198879. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/198879.
This show was broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin - http://oar.org.nz
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