Project Type: Tree Planting: Nature Based Removal

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Project ID: NZCO23

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Carbon Standard: Ministry for the Environment (MfE) Standard For Voluntary Offsetting

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Vintage: 2023-Current

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Additionality: Without the sale of carbon offsets the land could not be replanted with the variety and attention to species required for re-forestation.

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Permanence: 30% of project credits have been set aside in a buffer pool to account for any reversals. The project areas have been legally set-aside for long-term carbon sequestration with Carbon Covenants for each property for 100 years.

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About: The Papakura Stream is a 63 km long stretch of water that winds its way across South Auckland from Whitford in the east to the Manakau Harbour in the west.

The stream has a catchment area of 4,100 hectares that was once covered in indigenous forest – including kahikatea swamp but most of this habitat has been lost as farming, industry and settlements spread. Tree cover is now extremely low in the catchment. 

Without vegetation to help filter water before it enters the waterway, the quality of the upper Papakura Stream has deteriorated significantly.

 

Through the Papakura Stream Restoration Project, we’re improving the water quality of the stream, increasing tree cover in the catchment and creating a green corridor that runs across South Auckland. Planting native trees provides food and habitat for kākā, korimako, kereru, tūī and our only native mammal, the pekapeka (long-tailed bat), a rarely seen species which is known to reside in the upper reaches of the catchment.

 

The Papakura Stream Restoration Project aims to achieve this through:

• Fencing sections of unprotected stream to keep livestock out and to protect plantings

• Removing invasive weeds which are choking the waterways and threatening biodiversity in the area

• Restoring riparian margins, hills and wetlands to link native forest remnants with the stream

• Water quality testing

• Landowner and community education

• Building a native plant nursery to supply eco-sourced native trees to the project

 

By supporting the Papakura Stream Restoration with your native tree offsets, you help bring back native forests, protect treasured wildlife, restore the native ecosystem, and strengthen the bond between people and place.

 

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Project Description

MfE Voluntary Offset Standards

Verification Report

Monitoring Report

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