A five-year-plan to protect sand dunes at Queen Elizabeth Park was presented at two community discussions in Paekākāariki this week.
“I was encouraged by the community imput during the two meetings. There is great enthusiasm for meeting the challenge of protecting these highly valued dunes,” says Greater Wellington’s Kāpiti Councillor Nigel Wilson.
The five-year restoration plan will tackle the problems of increased coastal erosion due to rapidly changing weather patterns, and ways to manage this, such as restoration planting.
Cr Wilson says that the dunes are the last significantly intact dunes on the Kāpiti Coast. “Although fragile, they provide protection against coastal erosion and contain important coastal biodiversity, so we need to take good care of them.”
