Te Ngahere provides comprehensive and holistic restoration planning services tailored to available resources, spatial scales and differing environs.

Restoration plans frequently include stakeholder consultation, field surveys, data collection / analysis and the preparation of a comprehensive restoration plan that includes: restoration goals; threat analysis; prioritised actions and project timeframes, along with monitoring and costing components.

Te Ngahere have undertaken survey and inventory work for a variety of clients including local government, Ministry of Defence, the Department of Conservation and private landowners.

•  indigenous and exotic plant species inventories
•  reptile surveys
•  avifauna surveys
•  animal pest surveys

Recent projects include:

Stormwater Network Consent Vegetation Inventories throughout the Eskdale Stream Catchment, Birkenhead. Vegetation, Avifauna and Lizard surveys at Whangaparaoa Training Centre, Whangaparaoa.

Te Ngahere is able to provide ecological assessments for a variety of situations. Assessments can include:

•  indigenous and exotic plant inventories
•  vegetation mapping
•  fauna (avifauna, herpetological and invertebrate) surveys
•  investigations into the cultural and social values of the site
•  an assessment of the ecological significance of the area
•  potential ecological effects
•  recommended mitigation techniques

Read the Mt Burnett Pest Plant Management case study.

The preparation of weed management plans and strategies is a core service offered by Te Ngahere.

Weed management planning allows for the prioritisation of weed control operations across spatial and temporal scales, thereby ensuring cost-effective and sound restoration outcomes are achieved.

The weed management planning process is similar to that for restoration planning with the level of detail dependant on the nature of the project.

•  indigenous and exotic plant species inventories
•  reptile surveys
•  avifauna surveys
•  animal pest surveys

Recent projects include:

Stormwater Network Consent Vegetation Inventories throughout the Eskdale Stream Catchment, Birkenhead. Vegetation, Avifauna and Lizard surveys at Whangaparaoa Training Centre, Whangaparaoa.

Staff have extensive experience in the planning and design of small and large scale revegetation projects. With backgrounds that include native plant propagation, nursery management and rural forest remnant management, Te Ngahere staff can deliver progressive revegetation planning solutions for a variety of environs.

•  minimal intervention and natural succession regeneration regimes
•  forest diversity and enhancement plantings
•  riparian stream management and protection
•  wetland creation or enhancement
•  weed replacement, suppression plantings
•  coastal erosion
•  eco-sourcing programmes

Revegetation planning has been carried out for clients including regional, city and district councils and private landowners.

Te Ngahere provide a range of monitoring design and implementation services. Frequently forming a core component of the companies larger restoration projects, Te Ngahere believe monitoring to be fundamental to project success, and the development of best practise approaches to restoration.

•  vegetation plot sampling
•  photo-point monitoring
•  general forest surveillance monitoring
•  animal pest monitoring
•  avifaunal and Herpetological Monitoring

Planning and monitoring work has been undertaken for several projects that sought to quantify and then control animal pests in urban areas. This work included the assessment of pest animal impacts on ecosystem services along with the development of detailed control and monitoring programmes. Click here for Possum Control information.

•  field survey, data analysis and report preparation
•  predator control (rats, mustelids, cats)
•  control planning
•  monitoring

Ecological Restoration Workshop ( Introductory level ) The number of people involved in the voluntary management and restoration of natural areas in the Auckland region has increased significantly over the past decade. Accompanying this increase in volunteer activity is a desire among the community for a greater understanding of the components and process of ecological restoration.

After witnessing this interest and thirst for information on numerous occasions, Te Ngahere staff approached various stakeholders in the Auckland region to discuss the possibility of Te Ngahere running training workshops to meet the demand for information and advice. The outcome of this process was the development of an introductory level, one-day workshop in ecological restoration, targeted solely at volunteers and community group members involved in managing natural areas.

Designed for those people with little or no practical experience in ecological restoration, the workshop aims to explain the basic concepts of revegetation, native and exotic plant i.d, weed control (non-chemical/ manual), revegetation/ weed maintenance and animal pest control. The workshop also recognises the bigger picture and the variety of benefits that stem from improving environmental health and biodiversity. Another anticipated outcome of the workshop is the ability to establish a standard level of understanding and knowledge among volunteers, thereby allowing community group co-ordinators to delegate various tasks, and be confident that the volunteer is capable of the task.

The workshops have been endorsed by Auckland Regional Council, the Department of Conservation, Waitakere City Council, North Shore City Council and Auckland City Council. Four workshops have been booked by ARC for the 2005.

Please contact John Sala for a PDF of workshop content.