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 Marcella Hoedemaker. Marcella is a regular at our monthly meetings and is actively involved with our trapping projects. "I'm passionate about volunteer work, nature and the community. I have done trapping before, however it became too time consuming. Somehow I noticed AKV, and had a great chat with Paul. I've been trapping now for a year or so. It works well, it's do-able, there's good materials for quick and respectful terminations, and great people to work with. I love engaging with everyone in the AKV community and ongoing learning about trap developments, animal behavior and the rising numbers of caught species. It feels so empowering to help nature thrive!" Thank you Marcella! <3
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Meet Josh Smith. Josh works hard for AKV, doing flyer drops, coming to meetings and being involved in various projects. Recently Josh has started monitoring the air quality of Kaikorai Valley and we hope to collaborate with him further on this endeavour. Josh says, "I think the variety of people within the group makes it very special and unique. I've learnt so much since becoming part of Aroha Kaikorai Valley, and it's been great to discover what's happening around us."
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Good evening Kaikorai Valley, Just a reminder about two AKV events we have on this week: 1. Our regular Thursday trappers' meeting, 5.30-6.30pm, at our HQ, 381 Kaikorai Valley Road. 2. Our rubbish cleanup, 10am-12 noon, Saturday 16 November. Meet at our HQ, 381 Kaikorai Valley Road. We'd love to see you!
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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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