Monitoring will provide you with a track record of the performance of your planting sites which can be used to demonstrate to funders and supporters that the planting occurred and provide an indication based on a systematic sampling system of success. This could help you secure further support for future planting projects and funding applications.
This information not only helps us to build a picture of the risks which newly planted trees are facing in your region and nationwide but can also help you to better target resources such as pest animal control, as well as help to identify those species more likely to survive at your site in future.
In addition to planters having a record of their plantings and a measure of their performance, there will be scope to quantify and compare success of native planting programmes at both regional and national levels.
Rapid and easy
This online rapid monitoring tool for monitoring early performance of native plantings is designed to be easy to use. It is designed to be used by all planters from landowners, iwi, schools and community groups to those in councils, consultancies, environmental NGOs and tertiary institutes involved in planting and managing native vegetation ecosystems.