Location: Te Arai
GPS Coordinates: -36.1925444, 174.594413888
Project Cost: NZD $21546
Cost per Metre: NZD $18
Metres to be planted: 1197m
Field Partner: Auckland Council
Project ID: NI6
Project Description:
Project update 11 April 2016:
We are very pleased to note that the $2000 in match funding for this project has been used – thanks so much to everyone who has donated to the project over the last month or so. We are now at 80% of our target with 20 days left to reach 100%. Please share the project as far and wide as you can to help us make it all the way there!
Project update 10 March 2016:
We are very pleased to say we now have match-funding for this project! Any contribution that comes into the project from today will be matched, doubling the impact of your contribution. This is up to the value of $2000 that we have received for the project to be used for match-funding purposes.
Project Description:
At the headwaters of the Hoteo River – Auckland’s largest – you’ll find John and Geraldine Taylor’s 178 ha drystock farm, Tomarata Farms. For ten years, the Taylors have been progressively fencing their waterways, gullies and wetlands. This crowdfunding campaign will enable the next stage of environmental protection – revegetating one of the main gullies that cradles the Waiteitei stream, a tributary of the Hoteo.
At 28 kilometres long, the Hoteo is Auckland’s largest in volume, length and catchment size. It drains approximately 408km2 into the ecologically sensitive Kaipara Harbour. Remarkably the river spans virtually the entire island from Te Arai in the east to the Kaipara in the west.
Sediment is identified as the most important threat to health to both the river and the Kaipara, and the catchment is a significant contributor. This sediment has a strong negative impact on the seagrass meadows in the Kaipara Harbour, critical breeding grounds for 90 per cent of the snapper found off New Zealand’s west coast.
John and Geraldine believe you can’t farm now like you did 50 years ago, and that farmers need to make a mind shift to embrace environmental challenges like this one.
As members of the Forest Bridge Trust – a farmer-initiated environment trust that supports outstanding land stewardship in the Hoteo catchment – they are acting on the vision to create a thriving corridor from the Omaha Estuary on the East Coast to the Southern Kaipara Harbour. This will not only help reduce sediment reaching the Kaipara snapper breeding grounds, but will also improve the biodiversity of the waterway and catchment.
Having observed first hand the benefits of excluding stock from the most marginal land on their property, the Taylors are strong advocates for sustainable land management.
Donor | Amount | Distance | Date |
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Wilderness Motorhomes | $1,891.85 | 105.00m | 04 May 2016 |
Kara Stones | $90.00 | 5.00m | 04 May 2016 |
Mark Thomson | $36.00 | 2.00m | 03 May 2016 |
Dylan Clarke | $18.00 | 1.00m | 03 May 2016 |
Anonymous | $36.00 | 2.00m | 03 May 2016 |
Sharpe Family | $18.00 | 1.00m | 03 May 2016 |
Jo McVeagh | $18.00 | 1.00m | 03 May 2016 |
Nick Morrison | $18.00 | 1.00m | 03 May 2016 |
Dean And Barry Only Four Of You Moved | $72.00 | 4.00m | 03 May 2016 |
PR Payne | $18.00 | 1.00m | 03 May 2016 |
Fran Hayton | $36.00 | 2.00m | 03 May 2016 |
Christopher Dempsey | $36.00 | 2.00m | 03 May 2016 |
Jonathan Boow | $18.00 | 1.00m | 03 May 2016 |
Craig Pratt | $36.00 | 2.00m | 03 May 2016 |
Anonymous | $36.00 | 2.00m | 03 May 2016 |
Dougal Taylor | $504.00 | 28.00m | 03 May 2016 |
Chrissy Henley | $36.00 | 2.00m | 02 May 2016 |
Kieren Arthur | $108.00 | 6.00m | 29 Apr 2016 |
Geoff Simmons | $50.00 | 2.77m | 27 Apr 2016 |
Fiona Stephenson | $18.00 | 1.00m | 26 Apr 2016 |
Steve King | $36.00 | 2.00m | 26 Apr 2016 |
Georgina Hart | $36.00 | 2.00m | 26 Apr 2016 |
Mat And Vanessa Vujcich | $36.00 | 2.00m | 26 Apr 2016 |
Beard Family | $36.00 | 2.00m | 20 Apr 2016 |
Niki Taylor | $288.00 | 16.00m | 20 Apr 2016 |
Jan Burbery | $36.00 | 2.00m | 20 Apr 2016 |
Jan Burbery | $18.00 | 1.00m | 20 Apr 2016 |
Liam Bleakley | $108.00 | 6.00m | 20 Apr 2016 |
Jake Bleakley | $108.00 | 6.00m | 20 Apr 2016 |
Rachel Griffiths | $18.00 | 1.00m | 19 Apr 2016 |
Jenks Family | $144.00 | 8.00m | 13 Apr 2016 |
Anonymous | $18.00 | 1.00m | 12 Apr 2016 |
John Carter | $18.00 | 1.00m | 11 Apr 2016 |
Jan Silk | $900.00 | 50.00m | 10 Apr 2016 |
Match Funding | $324.00 | 18.00m | 08 Apr 2016 |
Stephen Young | $450.00 | 25.00m | 08 Apr 2016 |
Match Funding | $144.00 | 8.00m | 04 Apr 2016 |
Hana Maguire | $144.00 | 8.00m | 04 Apr 2016 |
Match Funding | $504.00 | 28.00m | 04 Apr 2016 |
Gareth Taylor | $504.00 | 28.00m | 04 Apr 2016 |
Match Funding | $306.00 | 17.00m | 03 Apr 2016 |
Anonymous | $306.00 | 17.00m | 03 Apr 2016 |
Apex Insurance (Oxfam New Zealand) | $29.60 | 1.70m | 01 Apr 2016 |
Match Funding | $504.00 | 28.00m | 30 Mar 2016 |
Anonymous | $504.00 | 28.00m | 30 Mar 2016 |
Match Funding | $36.00 | 2.00m | 30 Mar 2016 |
Ann Reaves-Askwith | $36.00 | 2.00m | 30 Mar 2016 |
Match Funding | $36.00 | 2.00m | 29 Mar 2016 |
Julia Jackson | $36.00 | 2.00m | 29 Mar 2016 |
Yoshimi Brett | $2,700.00 | 150.00m | 24 Mar 2016 |
Chow Hill Architects | $1,800.00 | 100.00m | 22 Mar 2016 |
Match Funding | $360.00 | 20.00m | 21 Mar 2016 |
William Eaton | $360.00 | 20.00m | 21 Mar 2016 |
Match Funding | $18.00 | 1.00m | 16 Mar 2016 |
Match Funding | $18.00 | 1.00m | 16 Mar 2016 |
Anonymous | $18.00 | 1.00m | 16 Mar 2016 |
Anonymous | $18.00 | 1.00m | 16 Mar 2016 |
Match Funding | $306.00 | 17.00m | 16 Mar 2016 |
Match Funding | $18.00 | 1.00m | 16 Mar 2016 |
David Clendon | $306.00 | 17.00m | 16 Mar 2016 |
Ash Standring | $18.00 | 1.00m | 16 Mar 2016 |
Janet Crawford | $18.00 | 1.00m | 09 Mar 2016 |
Miriam Hartmann | $18.00 | 1.00m | 08 Mar 2016 |
Chrissy Henley | $36.00 | 2.00m | 08 Mar 2016 |
Kelly Hunt | $18.00 | 1.00m | 04 Mar 2016 |
Anonymous | $18.00 | 1.00m | 04 Mar 2016 |
Olivia Duenas | $18.00 | 1.00m | 04 Mar 2016 |
Richard Gregory | $200.00 | 11.11m | 26 Feb 2016 |
Paul Styles | $200.00 | 11.11m | 25 Feb 2016 |
Keith Salmon | $50.00 | 2.78m | 25 Feb 2016 |
Melanie Scott | $50.00 | 2.78m | 09 Feb 2016 |
Liz Maire | $50.00 | 2.78m | 04 Feb 2016 |
Sustainable Business Network | $500.00 | 27.78m | 03 Feb 2016 |
Bruno Agra | $300.00 | 16.67m | 03 Feb 2016 |
Chris Roberts | $50.00 | 2.78m | 28 Jan 2016 |
Rebecca Keen | $2,000.00 | 111.11m | 25 Dec 2015 |
Jerry & Alison Boos | $50.00 | 2.78m | 25 Dec 2015 |
Brandenburg Tim | $100.00 | 5.56m | 22 Dec 2015 |
Paradigm Associates | $500.00 | 27.78m | 21 Dec 2015 |
Emma Hunt | $50.00 | 2.78m | 16 Dec 2015 |
Apex Insurance (Oxfam New Zealand) | $484.07 | 26.89m | 15 Dec 2015 |
Apex Insurance (ecoPortal) | $83.19 | 4.62m | 15 Dec 2015 |
Apex Insurance (Angel Food) | $140.00 | 7.78m | 15 Dec 2015 |
Jane Haines | $200.00 | 11.11m | 03 Dec 2015 |
Hamish & Craig Bain & Olsen | $50.00 | 2.78m | 26 Nov 2015 |
Wilderness Motorhomes | $1,565.29 | 86.96m | 23 Nov 2015 |
Claire Warren | $50.00 | 2.78m | 23 Nov 2015 |
Rachael Patching | $50.00 | 2.78m | 19 Nov 2015 |