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Our Next Working Bee is 10am Sunday 4th May planting @ Western Park
Restoration Ruatuna are local volunteers who are restoring and protecting the native environment in Laingholm. We engage with our neighbours, nurture our community’s sense of place and work to recreate a healthy, thriving ecosystem.
Ruatuna is the original name for the estuary at Laingholm Beach meaning two eel holes. Since 2018, we have been eliminating weeds, restoring public spaces, controlling predators, monitoring the health of the stream and providing information to our community. Geographically, most of our activities take place in the Ruatuna catchment, which includes the valley, its ridges, the stream and the beach.
Aotearoa New Zealand is home to many unique and ancient species of birds, frogs, lizards and plants. Many of our species are found nowhere else on Earth and this isolation makes them vulnerable to introduced predators such as rats, stoats, ferrets, weasels and possums. Restoration Ruatuna is working as part of a wider network of community groups towards the ambitious national goal of ‘Predator Free 2050’. Making NZ predator free by 2050 will allow our native wildlife to flourish once more.
Help protect our native trees and wildlife by joining our volunteer trappers.
Are you interested in borrowing a possum, rat or stoat trap? We operate a community trap library that lends traps to help control pest animals and track catch numbers.
