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Project De-Vine Sponsored by Cut’n’Paste

ByAndy Spence October 26, 2024November 15, 2024

We are proud to provide sponsorship to Project De-vine, a charitable trust focussed on eradicating / controlling invasive vines and other invasive plants and trees throughout Golden Bay and around the halo of Abel Tasman National Park.

Cut’n’Paste provides discounted weed gels

Cut’n’Paste provided discounted weedgels which were given out to landowners and small groups so they can cut and paste invasive vines and other pest plant and tree species.

Project De-Vine – Around the district:

Golden Bay:

One landowner in the Kotinga valley who has been working on invasive vines for many years with the gel bottles commented how useful they have been to control hundreds of Taiwanese Cherry seedlings which had sprouted from a neighbouring source.
A keen group of six local residents in Ligar Bay meet regularly to walk the bush area at the back of the housing there. They noticed many old man’s beard seedlings and with a suggestion from a friend contacted Project De-Vine for gel bottles. They carry the bottles and a cut device with them on their walks to deal with them and have added in other pest plants to their list to cut and paste as they find them.

Richmond:

Dave Philipps from the Roding River Catchment Enhancement Group was very happy to get his bottle of Cut & Paste supplied by TDC and funded through Nelson Building Society. The Group are using Cut & Paste tubes to control Old Man’s Beard, Hawthorn, Barberry and other noxious weeds along the riparian margins of the Roding River. The Catchment Group is working on the stretch from the Hackett Reserve all the way down to TDC’s Busch Reserve both on private land and helping improve the Council Reserves. Further down the track they hope to expand both up and down the river with their work. They have already started planting natives on the river banks and have plans for much bigger areas in the 2025 planting season. There are also revegetation projects away from the river on land recently harvested from pines and retiring areas of pasture to native plants. Enhancing native birdlife by controlling pests is also a big goal for the Catchment Group.

Aniseed Valley residents and our local Hope school have a history of working bees in the TDC reserves and over the years have planted many of the big established natives you now find in Busch and Twin Bridges reserves.

Motueka: