Save The Otago Peninsula Planting Day

This event is part of Conservation Week 2022 - www.conservationweek.org.nz

Save the Otago Peninsula (STOP) is a community-based environmental group that actively undertakes habitat enhancement, advocacy and education for the unique biodiversity of the Otago Peninsula. The organisation was formed in 1980 in response to the possible construction of an aluminium smelter at Okia Flats as an alternative site to Aramoana at the entrance to the Otago Harbour.

STOP now exists to protect and enhance the natural environment of the Peninsula. It monitors and reacts to potential threats to the environment. It also works to raise concern for the protection of the environment and it organises practical ways in which people can make a contribution to our area.

The working bees during Conservation Week involve planting trees.

Site:
Smiths Creek Catchment Revegetation Project. At the no exit end of Bacon St in Turnbulls Bay (next bay after Broad Bay), on the Otago Peninsula (17k from CBD, 20mins to half an hour travel)
Catch the No 18 Portobello bus at 8.38am and ask to be let off at Bacon St in Turnbulls Bay.

Level of fitness: Must be able to walk across an uneven paddock. If you can garden you can do the activity.

Time frame: Working bees start at 9.30am and stop for morning tea about 11.15pm. Some volunteers leave then, others continue till about 12.30pm
Buses back to town are at just after 12 noon and 1pm.

Bring:
Equipment: gardening gloves if you have them, but we can supply. All tools supplied.
Food and drink: Bring your own water. For morning or afternoon tea we supply thermoses and tea and coffee, although some volunteers prefer to bring their own, or at least their own cup.

Covid-19 protection
You may wish to use a mask when in a group for prebriefing but during planting you are outdoors and social distancing is easy, so masks are generally not worn, although we ask that you bring one in case of an accident or a situation where you are in close contact with someone else, or maybe you just end up sharing a lift in someone’s car.

Project Coordinator is Lala Frazer. Contact at stopincsoc@gmail.com.