Conservation in the South Waikato
FOREST AND BIRD’S South Waikato branch is celebrating its tenth birthday this year. Branch secretary Anne Groos says that as one of the society’s smaller branches, South Waikato concentrates on revegetation projects, speaker evenings and weekend camps. It has developed a native plant nursery which contributes thousands of trees to replanting projects every year as well as
providing the main source of branch funds. A continuing programme has been the restoration work with native plantings at Jim Barratt Reserve and Harihari beach on the west coast. The branch is also an active member of consultative committees set up to look at minimising the environmental impacts of major local resource users applying for new resource permits. These include Carter Holt Harvey’s giant Kinleith pulp and paper mill and the Lichfield cheese factory. Northern field officer Jacqui Barrington was guest speaker at a well-attended anniversary dinner held by the branch in Putaruru in early August.
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Forest and Bird, Issue 281, 1 August 1996, Page 13
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