FREE Invasive Weed Disposal – Community Weed Amnesty
* Note; this service is available to Whangarei Heads Residents only* Weed Action is trying to make it as easy as possible for you to take action against weeds. Following the success of our previous weed amnesty initiatives, here’s another to help motivate our community. After all, what better time is there than NOW to […]
Bi Annual Newsletter January – June 2020
Want in on the Action?! Here’s what’s been happening in the world of weeds at the Heads… Supporting Landowners and Volunteers In January, another annual event was conducted for residents with the invasive ground cover Tradescantia fluminensis to collect their own population of bio-control beetles Neolema ogloblini aka ‘Shiny’ from our nursery site for translocation. […]
Launching the Forest Recovery Team of Bream Head/Te Whara
With the funding Chairperson Robyn Bigelow & dedicated volunteer Jenny Lawrence gained for Weed Action Whangārei Heads from the Department of Conservation’s Community Funds last year, we were able to engage our community to establish a passionate group of volunteers to combat environmental weeds at Bream Head/Te Whara. Led by two motivated environmental champions: Mike […]
New Year, New Mahi!
Happy new year to our wonderful community, we hope everyone enjoyed the holiday period and had the opportunity to re-charge body and mind. In 2020 we will see Weed Action’s strategic direction re-charged with an opportunity that was granted to us from the Department of Conservation’s Community Funds at the end of 2019. There was […]
Reotahi Working Bee
Mt Aubrey/Reotahi Reserve is one of the four peaks in Whangarei Heads that is recognised as ecologically significant and is a prime example of Northland coastal podocarp broadleaf forest. Unfortunately the forest is becoming increasingly invaded by environmental weeds, with wild ginger, elaeagnus, cotoneaster, woolly nightshade, taiwan cherry amongst some of the worst offenders that […]
Upping the Ante – Stopping the Spread of Tree Privet
Introducing the Parua Bay Privet Buffer It’s with much excitement, Weed Action can now share with residents our not-so-small project that has been in the pipeline for over a year. During the next few months (September – October) we will be in the process of connecting a network of landowners south of Whangarei Heads Road […]
Green Waste Trial Bin at Whangarei Heads Enterprises
Need to get rid of some green waste responsibly? We’ve got you covered! Spring means people get out and into their gardens. In the past that has meant that we start to see more dumping of green waste down roadside banks and into reserves. This dumping is unsightly, and worse than that, often contains the […]
Meet the New Project Coordinator
Introducing Kelly! November marks the start of a new chapter at Weed Action with a new Project Coordinator taking the helm – Kelly Maxwell. Jo Barr, the goddess of strategic weed warfare at the Heads for 3 years, has taken up a position as a Biosecurity Specialist at Northland Regional Council. Much of her new […]
Look out weeds – the kids are coming for you….
The future of our forests are in good hands if the kids of Whangarei Heads School are anything to go by. Last week I spent some time with each class and we talked about the weeds invading one of their favourite places, Fern Valley. We talked about what those weeds would mean for the future […]
Imitation – the sincerest form of flattery!
You know you are on to a good thing when other people start to copy what you are doing! Our community-led Weed Action project is providing inspiration for the Waipu-Mangawhai community to start up a similar project in their neck of the woods. Last weekend Weed Action coordinator Jo Barr ran a workshop for 20 […]