Delaware Bay Ecological Services

Embedded Ecology was engaged by a private land owner to provide ecological restoration services on a property in Delaware Bay. The site is situated on the edge of the estuary and adjacent to Bishop's Peninsula and Paremata Flats with Black Beech and Pukatea growing in the immediate vicinity. It has been a stunning location to work from with large Kēruru flocks of up to 50 birds descending on the property to feast on the blossoming Tree Lucerne through winter.

The land owner has vast experience with ecological restoration so most of the services have been to support their vision, and provide some labour for this project. This has included planting .trees, surveying the extent of Old man's beard and Banana passionfruit and cut and pasting large vines, forming tracks to access parts of the property and reinstating blocked drains to manage overland flow paths and reduce the likelihood of slips. 

QField maps (phone based GIS application) have been used for the project to help with decision making along the way and to capture field data such as the extent of weed ingress, high value species such as Tītoki on the property, access tracks and have access to landcover information and contours. QField is an open source GIS phone application that is a great option for projects with small budgets to enable effective in the field data capture. Get in touch if you want to find out how we can provide geospatial services for your project.