During project site visits, RiverCare’s operations manager noticed increasing possum damage to several established native trees on two projects that are in the pre-planting stage of development. He’s seen this before when restoration activity changes habitat and limits feeding options—possums quickly move to feeding on new vegetation types. If their numbers are high, it doesn’t take long before grazing damage and broken branches can be seen within the canopy of their new favo

Over the last 6 months, RiverCare has been busy working with industry partners, contractors and landowners to complete this projects first significant milestone—over 3,000 metres of fencing. This fence is key to protecting the streams long-term health as it excludes stock from the site and will provide a buffer zone for planting between the fence and stream. Areas within the Wai o Te Atua stream project are prone to seasonal flooding, so RiverCare needed to take a new approac