Post by Brent George on Oct 16, 2022 19:30:34 GMT
Ambitious planting scheme aims to cover Coronet Peak with 1 million native trees
Stuff - Environment: 16-Oct-2022
More than 300 volunteers have helped plant thousands of native trees on Queenstown’s Coronet Peak in an ambitious new scheme to eventually reforest the maunga with more than 1 million trees.
Organisers have described the project – a partnership between Trees That Count, landowners Soho Property, iwi-led environmental initiative Te Tapu o Tāne and Whakatipi Reforestation Trust – as the biggest planting event ever undertaken in the area.
The planted area forms part of the Mahu Whenua covenants, Aotearoa’s largest private conservation project, covering more than 55,000 hectares of land owned by Soho Property Limited, whose sole shareholder is Switzerland-based music producer Robert ‘Mutt’ Lange.
Stuff - Environment: 16-Oct-2022
More than 300 volunteers have helped plant thousands of native trees on Queenstown’s Coronet Peak in an ambitious new scheme to eventually reforest the maunga with more than 1 million trees.
Organisers have described the project – a partnership between Trees That Count, landowners Soho Property, iwi-led environmental initiative Te Tapu o Tāne and Whakatipi Reforestation Trust – as the biggest planting event ever undertaken in the area.
The planted area forms part of the Mahu Whenua covenants, Aotearoa’s largest private conservation project, covering more than 55,000 hectares of land owned by Soho Property Limited, whose sole shareholder is Switzerland-based music producer Robert ‘Mutt’ Lange.