Pinehaven Stream Community Open Day

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Get to know you local awa at this drop in day with Pest Free Pinehaven and Mountains to Sea Wellington’s Wai Connection team. Take part in water quality and species identification activities in the Pinehaven Stream, learn about ways you can take part in conservation mahi going on in Pinehaven, get to know your local community, and the people working to restore the mauri of Pinehaven’s waterways.

We’ll be running water quality monitoring (including completing a SHMAK test) and identifying fish and macro invertebrates living in the Pinehaven Stream.

We’ll have pest traps onsite for collection, so you can take part in Pest Free Pinehaven at home! Our catchment co-ordinators will be onsite to chat about other ways you can get involved in conservation in your area too.

This event is for the whole whānau, drop in anytime between 10am-2pm

Wai Connection is a national programme delivered by Mountains to Sea Wellington aimed at connecting local communities to their waterways to improve them. We support communities and mana whenua with the knowledge, tools and expertise to monitor and care for their local freshwater places.

Pest Free Pinehaven is a community group looking to improve the environment for the community and all of its natural inhabitants, working as an off-shoot of Pest Free Upper Hutt. Current projects include trapping and kiwi call monitoring. eDNA samples have been collected across the area as well as a spotlighting fish survey and subsequent fish barrier enquiries now that we have an idea of what is and isn’t in our waterways. Next steps are water quality monitoring and restoration planting to return habitat to the catchment

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