Bay Harbour: August 28, 2019

Wednesday August 28 2019
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BAY HARBOUR
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Saving the peninsula’s native forest
FORTY-TWO hectares of the
native forest which covers Banks
Peninsula has been protected,
and will remain so thanks to a
conservation covenant.
Farmers and landowners Brent
and Anna Fisher bought the land
containing the forest at Ataahua
seven years ago to expand their
farming operation.
Now with support from the
Banks Peninsula Conservation
Trust, and funding from
the World Wildlife Fund,
Environment Canterbury
and the city council, they have
fully fenced and protected a
piece of the region’s natural
history.
Only about one per cent of
the original forest area which
covered Banks Peninsula
remains, supporting a wealth of
plant and animal biodiversity.
“We were always aware of
the bush and it’s beautiful,” Mr
Fisher said.
“The previous owner had
an ecological survey done by
botanist Hugh Wilson and
there’s a tōtara in there that
apparently could be the biggest
tōtara tree on Banks Peninsula.”
When the Fishers bought the
land, the bush block, tucked in
the hills between Kaituna and
McQueens valleys, was unfenced
and stock could wander in.
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disturb the waterway and
sometimes be a challenge to
muster.
They approached the Banks
Peninsula Conservation Trust
for help fencing the important
remnant off and a conservation
covenant in perpetuity has
been placed over the land, now
known as Sally’s Bay, so it will
be preserved and protected for
all time.
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The trust managed the
process, securing funding,
contracting fencers, engaging
land and ecological surveyors
and providing the necessary
legal support.
“We always wanted to do it but
the two biggest constraints on
farmers are time and money and
to have someone come in and
organise it, that was the beauty
of it,” Mrs Fisher said.
PLANT
WEALTH:
Farmers
Brent and
Anna Fisher
have fully
fenced and
protected a
piece of Banks
Peninsula’s
native forest.
Trust covenants officer
Marie Neal said the block
contains extraordinary original
remnant forest and expansive
regenerating second-growth
bush, with gorse acting as a
nurse crop on the margins for
native seedling to flourish under.
The Sally’s Bay block gives a
clue to what Banks Peninsula
was like before early settlers
cleared the land.
Step towards
lowering speed
limits in Sumner
• By Jess Gibson
SAFER SPEEDS in Sumner may
be just around the corner.
The Linwood-Central-
Heathcote Community
Board unanimously passed a
recommendation on Wednesday
to approve slower speed limits in
Sumner.
A 30km/h zone has been
endorsed on the Esplanade, Head
St, Menzies St, Hardwicke St,
Stoke St, Burgess St and Marriner
St and part of Nayland St. A
40km/h zone has been endorsed
for part of Nayland St, Wiggins
St, Dryden St, Colenso St, Arnold
St, Denman St, Duncan St, Druro
St, Paisley St and Stoke St, among
others.
However, the community board
has not recommended lowering
the speed on Wakefield Ave
outside a commercial area based
on submissions and staff advice.
The community board has
asked for further advice on the
speed limits for Scarborough Rd
and Taylors Mistake Rd, as well
as pedestrian safety options for
Wakefield Ave.
The city council will now
make a decision on whether to
approve the community board’s
recommendations at its meeting
on September 12.
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