Event Details
Celebrate Conservation Week 2025 and "Take Action for Nature" by planting native plants at the A'Deanes Bush Scenic Reserve Community Planting Day, Makaretu Road, (1km past Sherwood School), Central Hawke’s Bay with the Friends of A'Deanes Bush, the Conservation Company and the Department of Conservation.
Planting starts at 10 am and will finish at 12 noon followed by a sausage sizzle. Everyone is invited - this event is suitable for families. Nau mai, haere mai, all welcome - we would love your help!
Bring: Spade, hat, gardening gloves, suitable clothing and wet weather gear if required, drink. The area can be wet so gumboots are recommended.
Following the sausage sizzle you are welcome to attend the Friend's of A'Deanes Bush inaugural AGM or enjoy an easy stroll through the reserve, see the work being done by the Friend's of A'Deanes to preserve this precious bush, see the one of New Zealand’s largest standing totara, approximately 34m high and estimated to be over 600 years of age.
If raining, event postponed to Sunday 28th September.
A’Deane’s Bush Scenic Reserve is a 38 ha lowland forest and includes one of the few native forest remnants in the Ashley Clinton district. It is managed as a joint venture between Friends of A’Deane’s Bush and DOC. This awesome little reserve features one of New Zealand’s largest standing totara, along with rimu, matai, titoki, black beech and kahikatea. It is also home to a range of native birds and the threatened long-tailed bat and green mistletoe.
The Friends of A’Deane’s Bush is a great eco-restoration project involving many partners and has been working to try and achieve their vision of creating a wildlife sanctuary where native plants and animals flourish, and where local community and visitors are encouraged to experience and learn about the ecological restoration of New Zealand’s natural heritage.
Predator control, weed management, along with kereru, tui, morepork and long-tailed bat counts, weta houses, lizard retreats, and invertebrate monitoring are all being utilised to help understand the bush area and to monitor the response of wildlife to the pest control efforts.
Ongoing planting of appropriate native species is occurring to re-vegetate margins of bush and wetlands of the reserve. Forest birds such as miromiro/tomtit and tititipounamu/rifleman have been re-introduced back into the reserve with more translocations to come in the future.
For more information go to the Friends of A’Deane's Bush Facebook page www.facebook.com/adeanesbush/
This event is part of Conservation Week 2025 - www.doc.govt.nz/conservationweek
