How to help

Planting days

Weekend working bees in the planting seasons — April and May, then August and September — usually at 10 am. The spots are strimmed, sprayed and often pre-drilled before you arrive, and new planters are shown a trial patch first so that everyone plants the same way. We bring the plants, the tools and the trailer.

Dates go out on Facebook.

Mid-week planting

A team of eight plants during the week, thirty to seventy plants at a time. Between July and September 2026 the mid-week team planted more than the weekend working bees did.

Get in touch and say which days you can do.

Weed work

African boxthorn, broom, gorse, docks, hemlock, ivy and flowering currant, plus exotic grass everywhere. Clearing the boxthorn, broom and gorse out of the planting area is an output of the project in its own right, and the grass has to be kept back from every young plant for two years.

Growing plants on

Almost every plant comes from Forest & Bird’s nursery in the Oamaru Public Gardens, and the limit there is growing space rather than money. We have begun buying plants in to grow on for the following season, and asked local gardening clubs about raising plants at home.

Get in touch if you have room to grow plants on.

Predator control

One of the trust’s purposes — support and expand predator control — and the part of the plan with least behind it so far. There is trapping around Ōamaru, and the tūī and korimako coming back into the town are the result of it; on the Cape itself we do not yet know who traps where.

If you trap on the Cape, we would like to hear from you.

Recording what you see

There is one dated wildlife record for this headland: a pair of grey warblers nesting beside the path in August 2026. The monitoring programme also calls for drone photographs every six months and survival counts every three, and both need doing.

Sightings and photographs are welcome by email.