Youths support native plant nursery protecting Tolaga Bay environment
26 March 2025
Gisborne Herald
A native plant nursery on the East Coast has had success growing native plants and returning them to the whenua to support the environment with help from local rangatahi.
The joint venture partnership between the Uawanui Nursery in Tolaga Bay and Aratu Forests to use natives to protect the district’s waterways has been a success so far, according to nursery spokesman Victor Walker.
Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti Centre of Excellence Trust, who run the nursery, signed a memorandum of understanding with Aratu Forests in November 2023 to create the partnership.
Under the memorandum, Aratu Forests granted the nursery the right to access native seedlings from their forests.
The nursery sells the seedlings it grows back to Aratu.