Pingao planting in Horowhenua
OVER THE PAST few years there has been an effort by Maori, conservation and other interest groups to reestablish pingao plant communities on sand dunes around the country. Pingao, the golden sand sedge, has declined markedly as sand dunes have been modified and stabilised. As part of the replanting effort, the Horowhenua branch applied to the Lotteries Board for funding in 1990 to build a shadehouse to propagate 2,000 plants for use on the
local beaches. Problems arose in finding a suitable place to construct the shadehouse and, frustrated by the long delays, the branch decided to purchase the plants instead from a DoC nursery in Turangi. In mid-December branch members and children from Foxton School planted over 1,800 pingao plants into the sand dunes at Waikawa Beach. The pingao was planted in a rabbit proof enclosure to protect the plants from browsing animals.
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Forest and Bird, Volume 23, Issue 2, 1 May 1992, Page 11
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148Pingao planting in Horowhenua Forest and Bird, Volume 23, Issue 2, 1 May 1992, Page 11
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