Vector and Sustainable Coastlines invite you, your school or business to join us on Sunday, 23 September for a free day of tree planting on the banks of the Puhinui Stream. Puhinui Reserve has played an important role in Auckland Council’s Million Trees project this year.

This public planting day is open to all, so bring your family and all your mates!

Planting native trees, shrubs and grasses on the banks of waterways helps the environment in a number of ways. Plants remove sediment and excess nutrients, they provide shelter, shade and habitat to birds and stream organisms and they help to capture carbon dioxide, which contributes in the ongoing battle against climate change.

To take part in this event, please fill in the form below on behalf of your group and one of our team from Sustainable Coastlines will be in touch. We’ll be meeting from 10.00am at the end of Price Rd in Wiri and look for our blue Sustainable Coastlines flags and friendly helpers in high-vis gear. We’ll be starting from 10.00am and finishing up around 4:00pm. You can stay for as little or as long as you like, but at lunch, we’ll all come together for a tasty feed and refreshment.

To participate, please take a few seconds to sign up via our registration form below.

THIS EVENT IS NOW AT CAPACITY! PLEASE COME ALONG ON SUNDAY THE 23rd – EVENT PAGE HERE: Day 2 Event

Vector and Sustainable Coastlines invite you, your school or business to join us on Friday, 21 September to help launch the Vector Urban Forest initiative with a day of tree planting on the banks of the Puhinui Stream.

Vector’s Urban Forest aims to plant over 10,000 native seedlings a year, replacing every tree removed from the network for safety reasons with two new ones in areas where they contribute to the environment and the local community.

We are inviting select schools and business groups that want get their hands dirty for the day and contribute to this awesome effort in riparian restoration.

Planting native trees, shrubs and grasses on the banks of waterways helps the environment in a number of ways. Plants remove sediment and excess nutrients, they provide shelter, shade and habitat to birds and stream organisms and they help to capture carbon dioxide, which contributes in the ongoing battle against climate change.

Simply meet from 9.00am at the end of Price Rd in Wiri and look for the Vector and Sustainable Coastlines flags and friendly helpers in high-vis gear. We’ll be starting from 9.00am and finishing up around 3:00pm. We will all come together in the middle of the day for a tasty feed and refreshments.

The tree planting held by Sustainable Coastlines on Saturday, the 29th of September was the third time we had partnered with Auranga, an environmentally responsible development in Drury.  It was a fun day, planting 2200 trees with 94 members of the community, local schools, our team and theirs.  Sustainable Coastlines’ Shelley Butt headed the event with the help of Fletcher Sunde and Amy Klitscher and her international Volunteers. What a great day it was!

With health and safety consulting by Andrew from Xigo and manpower Dempsy Wood, the plants supplied by Craig and The Plant People, the extra spades from Matthew and New Zealand Bio-security Services Ltd, and the catering team led by Amy Wong Kam it was a big team effort to make this event happen!

Special thanks goes to Kitty, Rachel Elizabeth and Charles from Auranga and to Hero Potini from Ngāti Tamaoho for his opening karakia.

Auranga is a place that has been designed with the community at its heart, but building a new community on a greenfields site comes with a responsibility to the natural environment. This is why the partnership between Sustainable Coastlines and Auranga is so important. Auranga is serious about contributing to improved waterways and is planting tens of thousands of native plants in rain gardens, wetlands and along stream banks and the estuary. These natural features, along with large and cleverly designed parks, reserves, esplanades, walkways and cycle-paths all contribute to a healthier environment. We would like to invite you to be a part of this ecological invigoration.

On Wednesday 1 August 2018, we were joined by multi-national company Danone on the coastlines around Mangere for a morning of clean-up action. Danone first engaged with Sustainable Coastlines earlier this year during one of our Out Of Office events and we were stoked that they liked it some much they came back for their own tailored clean-up.

64 of Danone’s staff arrived early in the morning with all round great attitudes, ready to get stuck in. After some essential education in the form of a Love Your Coast presentation delivered by Sustainable Coastlines’ Programmes Manager Fletcher Sunde, the team split into three groups, with two focusing on the immediate area along Kiwi Esplanade and one group heading for the heavily littered Island Road, on the way to Puketutu Island.

One and a half hours of cleaning produced an astounding 4000 litres of rubbish – 680kgs worth or approximately 10,860 individual pieces. This was an absolutely monumental effort by the team.

We want to thank Danone and their staff for being so keen to get out with us and care for our environment together. Particular thanks to Katelyn Guildford and Craig Leishman for being the internal champions at Danone.  We’d love to see this collaboration continue and we look forward to getting out with this awesome team again.

What an awesome day! On Saturday, 27 October 2018, 160 community members descended onto Harbourview Orangihina Park in Te Atatu Peninsula for a mammoth day of coastal revegetation. With support from Kathmandu, Auckland Council and the Henderson-Massey Local Board, the team at Sustainable Coastlines were delighted to bring this awesome event to West Auckland again this year.

The full-day event saw a number of key pioneer species such as manuka, harakeke, karo, and toetoe being used to revegetate this once-wetland that had been historically drained for farming. In keeping with this knowledge that this area was indeed an intertidal swamp, species such as oioi and umbrella sedge were planted in the damper spots. Looking forward to the future, a number of species such as the coastal tree daisy (Olearia solandri) and mattress bush (muehlenbeckia complexa) were planted as these are known nesting habitat for the endangered fernbird, of which there are a number of breeding pairs in the immediate vicinity.

The volunteers that came for the day were amazing and got really stuck in, many staying until we really had to pack everything away at 3pm. The weather played its part all too well and after a fine day without being too hot, it bucketed down in the evening, delivering a healthy drenching to our newly planted coastal forest.

Thanks to everyone who came out for the event and thanks again to our major sponsors Kathmandu, Auckland Council and the Henderson-Massey Local Board.

That makes over 10,000 plants that Sustainable Coastlines has facilitated planting on this site – bring on next year!

 

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As part of our amazing collaboration with Kathmandu Summit Club, we invite you to join us on Saturday October 27th for a tree planting at Harbourview-Orangihina Park, Te Atatu Peninsula, Auckland

Auckland Council and the Henderson-Massey Local Board do amazing work in this area, and are lovingly overlooking its restoration, so we want to help them give some love to this special area. This work continues our efforts from 2017, which saw over 5000 native plants be planted.

We’ll meet from 9.45am at the car park opposite Gloria Avenue; look out for the Sustainable Coastlines and Kathmandu flags (See Map Attached). We’ll be starting from 10.00am and finishing up around 2.00pm. You can stay for as little or as long as you like, but around noon we’ll all come together for a some tasty food and some Phoenix Organics Drinks.

To participate, please take a few seconds to sign up via registration at Kathmandu’s Summit Club. 

This is a beautiful but exposed area so please dress and prepare accordingly for chilly weather and a day outdoors. The planting is within easy walking distance from the car park – just look for the flags and you’ll find us!

What a fantastic day of planting at the Waimakariri River with Kathmandu Summit Club!

In only a few hours we planted 2600 trees along the beautiful tributary that feeds directly into the Waimakariri River.

The weather was sunny and unseasonably warm, and the shade of the nursery trees was welcomed by almost 100 volunteers that gave their time to give some love to this stream.  Last year we planted across the stream, so to be able to restore both banks makes real impact on the water quality of this tributary.

At lunch time we all put tools down and ate the amazing waste-free, sustainable lunch by Jade and Christa – if you’re in Christchurch go check out the Kākano Cafe and cookery school for eating and learning about foraged and sustainable foods!

A huge thanks to Greg Stanley and the team from Environment Canterbury for their passion and expertise in restoring this area right.  And of course thank you to our event sponsors Kathmandu, without whom we couldn’t run these events and our educational programmes for free.

Finally thank you to all the volunteers who gave their time so generously in support of our rivers and streams – we can make a difference when we work together!

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As part of our amazing collaboration with Kathmandu Summit Club, we invite you to join us on Saturday September 15th for a tree planting at the Waimakariri River.

Environment Canterbury (ECan) do amazing work in this area, and are lovingly overlooking its restoration, so we want to help them give some love to this special area. It’s an honour to be back in Christchurch, working with these teams.

How to get there: Head to the eastern end of Coutts Island Road – Whites Crossing West Picnic Area – and we’ll meet from 10.00am; look out for the Kathmandu flags. We’ll be starting from 10.00am and finishing up around 2.00pm. You can stay for as little or as long as you like, but around noon we’ll all come together for a some tasty food and some Phoenix Organics Drinks.

On Thursday the 21st June, 14 students from Thorndon School’s Enviro Group joined us at Trelissick Park in Ngaio Gorge to help plant some native trees as part of the Trelissick Park Group’s restoration plan.

On arrival at the planting site, we were greeted by the distinctive calls from a couple of Kaka, soaring high above us – proof of the positive impact that we can make for our indigenous New Zealand flora and fauna and of the spectacular success of Zelandia which, as the Kaka flies, is not so far from Trelissick Park.

Donning gloves and spades in hand (with a little bit of help from their adult helpers) the students set to work settling the native seedlings into their new homes along Nagio stream.  It was a chilly morning so the work was a welcome opportunity to warm up.  Once the trees had been planted it was time for some morning tea.  This gave us a chance to listen to the native bird calls and observe a plump Kereru sitting on a low branch beside the walking track.  The event finished off with a talk about the history of the park by Peter from the Trelissick Park Group who also kindly supplied the trees for the planting and has been integral to the restoration of this special area.

This event was an excellent opportunity for the students to connect with their local flora and fauna and contribute to the restoration of an important ecological and historical site.  We will look forward to seeing the see students again next term!

It was a perfect, crisp morning to meet with 34 keen staff of Coca Cola Amatil to get stuck in and clean-up around Highbrook Drive.  Fletcher Sunde, our Auckland Programmes Manager took us through a Love your Coast Presentation, talking about the impacts of plastics on the creatures that live in and around the oceans and things we can do to minimise those impacts: Refusing, Reducing, Reusing and Recycling.  Then we talked through the all important Health and Safety for the day and then got out there.  We very soon had an increasing pile of rubbish collected from the eastern banks of the Tāmaki Estuary – with many of the crew not phased about getting into the mangrove mud and doing the hard mahi for our harbour.

We came back for a quick tea break, then back out towards the boat-ramp on Waiouru Road where we garnered an incredible ute-full of rubbish to add to our haul.  This brought us to lunchtime and a well deserved rest.

After lunch we spread out all the rubbish and got on with auditing it.  Everything from straws, fishing line, car parts, food wrappers, drink bottles and lids and items of clothing were collected. We also painstakingly picked up a lot of micro-plastics along the banks. A couple of troopers even got knee deep in the mud to retrieve a truck tyre.

Seeing the total in front of us: 430kg (3400L) of rubbish – requiring an extra trailer to load it all to the refuse centre – it shocked even the more seasoned of us.  None of the rubbish collected could be recycled due to its dirty state. Moral of the story, we need to stop it before it gets to our waterways. It was a satisfying day, making sure that all of that rubbish didn’t end up downstream.

Thanks to the crew at Coca-Cola Amatil for their incredible work on the day, and Michael Fleury for contacting us about this Corporate event.

If you would like to run a clean-up/ team building session with us AND at the same time do a great service for our oceans, contact us at Sustainable Coastlines and we would be happy to chat through your options.