Punakaiki Coastal Restoration Project

The Punakaiki Coastal Restoration Project is run by Conservation Volunteers New Zealand which is a charitable trust.

The project focuses on restoring the Sand Plain Forest which used to span the Barrytown flats, so that there is a mountain to sea forest corridor.

This is particularly important as this area is the only nesting place for the Taiko (Westland Petrel) and amongst a small number of mainland breeding colonies for NZ petrel.

We need your help and everyone is welcome - international travelers and tourists, Kiwis from around New Zealand and West Coasters.

Join us on a planting day, or a Summer Volunteering Getaway (www.wildheartproject.kiwi). There’s a range of possible activities you can take part in on our site, including:

• Site induction covering the history of the site and restoration project, as well as the Taiko breeding colony and its national importance
  • Touring our site, the Barrytown beach and the adjacent Nikau Scenic Reserve which is a great example of unmodified Sand Plain Forest
  • Planting of native trees around our site
  • Seed collection and processing
  • Potting up seedlings
  • Helping out in our nursery where we raise all the trees we plant.