Author: Glenn Edney
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Kina gardening at Motu Te Maika
(Phillip Island) 11am Sunday 23rd August The kelp forest regeneration site at Motu Te Maika (Philip Island) in Tutukaka Harbour is flourishing, with strong natural juvenile kelp recruitment adding to the initial Green Gravel planting from our lab in Church Bay. Over the past 2 years we have seen a steady increase in the diversity and abundance…
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Autumn batch of kelplings doing well
Our third batch of kelpings, “planted” out six weeks ago, are doing really well. After doing a site preparation and kina removal session our team of volunteers carefully placed each of the 250 green gravel pebbles in nooks and crannies on the rocky reef substrate of Phillip Island in Tutukaka Harbour. This time around we…
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Te Whanga Hauora o Tutukaka
Regenerating the kelp forests of Tutukaka Harbour: A Community-based Collaborative Regeneration and Reseach Project Update 13-12-2022 First kelplings “planted” at Philip Island We had a great turnout on the morning of Sunday 11th Dec for the first of our kelp regeneration “plant outs”. Of course, we don’t actually plant the kelp in the sand, but…
Te Wairua O Te Moananui 