For the 2023/24 financial year the Programme was allocated a one-off package of around $7 million of Conservation funding, from the International Visitor Levy. This roughly doubled the year's maintenance control operations.
We have collected a few photos that partners have shared with us, showing some of the places where control work funded through the International Visitor Levy was delivered.
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Kaimanawa MU - Central North Island |
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ABBA control in Kaimanawa Management Unit controlled wildings growing in and above the gorges of the Taaruarau River. Photo credit: Thalia Sachtleben (DOC) |
Rangitaiki MU - Bay of Plenty |
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(This one may take a moment to load) This biospatial image from Bay of Plenty Regional Council shows a 'before' view (in the mid left area) of where ABBA work was done on wilding spread into the Kokamoka Valley in the Rangitaiki MU. Photo credit: Cam Wolting (BOPRC) |
Molesworth MU - Marlborough |
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The removal of numerous shelterbelts from Molesworth, including these ones at Tarndale and Red Gate is making a huge difference to the landscape as well as removing large seed sources. Photo credit: Liam Falconer (MDC) |
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Otago MUs - Kawarau, Glenorchy & Whakatipu |
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ABBA work at Bob's Cove on Lake Whakatipu saw targeted control of 900 wildings, seeded from nearby, amongst dense native vegetation (photo from above 12 Mile camp site). Photo credit: Will McBeth (DOC) |
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Douglas fir on a Station in Kawarau MU, over looking Cromwell and lake Dunstan. Photo taken prior to IVL funded ABBA works which saw 919 wildings controlled. Photo credit: Will McBeth (DOC) |
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Snow didn't stop this hardy crew marching up to take wildings by the cones on a Station in the Kawarau MU. 6491 Contorta, Douglas fir and Larch controlled in this ground operation. Photo credit: Will McBeth (DOC) |
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These trees on Wedge Peak, up near a ridge line, will no longer spread seed on the westerly winds towards Queenstown and across the lake to Cecil Peak. The remaining live trees around this boom sprayed area have now been drilled and filled. Photo credit: Will McBeth (DOC) |
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Pinus contorta growing on the ridgeline at Coal Pit saddle on PCL, eying up the Nevis Valley in the distance. Left another year this would have been coning (road in the image is the track descending from Coal Pit Saddle to the Doolans creek). 2593 trees controlled in this ground operation. Photo credit: Will McBeth (DOC) |
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Menacing Douglas fir amongst native scrub on the western faces of Lake Whakatipu, south of Elfin Bay. These trees by now will be turning brown after ABBA work. Photo credit: Will McBeth (DOC) |
