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Planting at Paremata



Facts and figures

as at 07/06/2018

  1. Forest and Bird have raised $190,000 since 2011 to plant 87,913 native eco sourced trees.
  2. 1235 planters have given 5,016 volunteer hours to plant 87,913 trees.
  3. Since 2007, 4,649 volunteer hours have been given by 41 trappers to a twice weekly pest Control management programme.
  4. 8,122 pests have been removed from Paremata, Uri O Te Wai and Maori Pa Road.
  5. 4,023 volunteer hours gone into weed control.
  6. 1,089 volunteer hours into administrative work and organising.
  7. 569 volunteer hours seed collecting.
  8. 112 volunteer hours into native plant propagation.
  9. 726 Volunteer hours into Pest monitoring.
  10. 350 Volunteer Hours into track development and maintenance.
  11. 152 Volunteer hours went into the watering of early plantings at the start of the 2016 planting season due to drying winds kicking in after initial rains with 14500 Litres of water being ferried by way of 20 Litre containers and 100/500 litre water tanks with hose to ensure plant survival.
  12. 210 hours went into Rubbish cleanup in Delaware Bay

Total Volunteer Hours given to the project 16896 if you charged this out at the minimum wage of $16.50 per hour then the very conservative dollar contribution by volunteers would be close to $280,000.00 and when combined with the money raised the total sum given to the project by Forest and Bird, Sponsors and volunteers, would be close to $469,000.