Planting for penguins with Highlanders!

Thanks to Speight’s Environment Fund, the Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust Nursery will kick off their planting season this year with $5,000 of trees and shrubs to be planted at Tavora Reserve, East Otago, on Sunday 22 May at 10 am. Join in and help restore yellow-eyed penguin habitats with the Trust and volunteers on this International Day of Biological Diversity. And because conservation is important to Southern Men, some of the Highlanders including Ben Smith will be there to help out.

• Place: Tavora Reserve, Bobby’s Head, Goodwood Road. Take SH1 north to Goodwood, turning right at AA sign to reserve.
• Time: 9.15 am, be at the old Wilson’s Distillery car park in Dunedin, or 10am at the reserve car park.
• Plan: To plant trees and shrubs at the South Beach and optional loop track walk, leaving reserve by 3 pm.
• Take: Spades, gardening gloves, warm clothing, lunch and drinks

NB: no toilet facilities

Plants were funded through a $5,000 grant from the Speight’s Brewery Environment Fund in 2010