Aroha Kaikorai Valley

It's time to make a change

The magnificent Kaikorai Valley is home to a large community with a mix of industrial and residential buildings and magnificent green spaces. The centrepiece of Kaikorai Valley is Kaikorai Stream, which threads its way through many historical features and modern developments. It has seen the best and worst of times. Now it's time for us to band together and make a difference.

Aroha Kaikorai Valley (AKV) is a registered charity, community and business-led organisation. Together, we can bring about massive change. We can eliminate weeds and pests, plant native plants to enhance our environment while attracting birds and cleaning up our waterways. 

Some great work has already been started by various organisations and AKV is hoping to build on that progress by teaming business support with people power to make Kaikorai Valley as beautiful and healthy as possible.

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Active traps

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Rats removed

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Mustelids removed

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Possums removed

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Hedgehogs removed

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Others removed

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Meet the Patterson Brown family! This crew have been involved with AKV from the start, and are regularly helping with rubbish cleanups, joining the monthly meetings and much more. Bob Brown, AKV trustee says: "It was hard work at first helping get everything set up and finding our way, but a huge motivation for me has been the input and support we have had from other groups during our setup, and then also to see the community coming together and the genuine sense of belonging that we all share. That's precious. And, if that wasn't enough, to then be able to see updates to our project statistics on AKV shed whiteboard is amazing and a daily reminder of the awesome mahi that is improving our local area."
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Meet Marty Knox. Marty has been invovled with AKV for over year, but has spent the last 6 months employed as a field worker. He's gone from strength to strength building trap boxes, running around traplines and helping community members manage their traps. We're so grateful for all his hard work and hope the native wildlife is too!
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Save the date! We're running another rubbish cleanup from 10am-12 noon on Saturday 16 November. Location and details to come :)
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Meet Paul Southworth. Paul's been with AKV since its inception and manages to fit in a lot of AKV work outside running his own business.
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Boom! We've cracked 700 predators! Imagine if we gathered up 700 predators and released them into Kaikorai Valley. That would be utterly devastating for our environment. But that's what we've taken OUT of our ecosystem! We hope you enjoy the increased vegetation and birdlife this spring :D
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Meet Marika Gray. Marika started volunteering with Aroha Kaikorai Valley at the beginning of 2024, joining the admin team, where she helps organise trap installations between our volunteers and backyard trap hosts. Marika loves being part of the Aroha Kaikorai Valley community and seeing the numbers of predators caught going up on the whiteboard. In her spare time she enjoys printmaking, learning instruments, sewing, and getting outside in the sun.
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Here's a graph of our birdcount from yesterday. Unfortunately the weather didn't come to the party but we still had 7 people take part! Hopefully as we do more trapping, we'll start seeing more native birds <3
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This morning we're doing a 5-minute bird count across Kaikorai Valley, using the trap.nz app. This isn't a hugely scientific study. We're just keen for you to take part! If a brown blob flies by, and you're not sure whether it was a sparrow or a dunnock or a grey warbler, just put your best guess, or put 'unknown'. Here are some pictures and sound recordings of our backyard birds to help you work out which bird you're seeing! https://gardenbirdsurvey.nz/identification/ Feel free to contact us if you have any questions 🙂 Happy bird monitoring!
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