Bay Harbour: March 31, 2021

14 <strong>Bay</strong> <strong>Harbour</strong> News Wednesday <strong>March</strong> <strong>31</strong> <strong>2021</strong><br />

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Trust is a non-profit organisation<br />

formed to protect one of New<br />

Zealand’s most important coastal<br />

wetlands. Each week, board<br />

members will discuss matters<br />

regarding the estuary, its rich history<br />

and what makes it unique. This<br />

week manager Tanya Jenkins writes<br />

about a trial to save native grass<br />

from extinction<br />

The estuary trust is not just encouraging<br />

estuary and wetland restoration projects<br />

for the protection of the many bird species<br />

we can find there.<br />

Healthy and thriving native plants are<br />

equally important, for example. Let’s look<br />

at a historically famous plant - the Cook’s<br />

Scurvy Grass, or known by its Maori<br />

name “Nau.”<br />

One of the famous stories of Captain<br />

James Cook was his ability to keep his<br />

crew relatively healthy by feeding them<br />

“greens” to ward off scurvy that killed so<br />

many sailors at the time.<br />

Captain Cook was renowned for his<br />

leadership skills, and in particular for<br />

sailing around the world without losing<br />

a single man to scurvy, for which he won<br />

the Copley Medal in 1776.<br />

He understood that fresh food, and<br />

in particular fresh greens, acted as an<br />

anti-scorbutic in keeping away the scurvy<br />

disease.<br />

Captain Cook and many other earlier<br />

sailors used to harvest huge amounts<br />

of this plant from New Zealand coastal<br />

areas.<br />

But due to coastal development, introduced<br />

plants and animals, this endemic<br />

(only found in NZ) plant is now classed as<br />

“threatened” and found only sporadically<br />

throughout the country.<br />

In fact, now such a concern for the<br />

threat of its extinction, that the Department<br />

of Conservation prepared a Threatened<br />

Plant Recovery Plan in 1998.<br />

By trialling the reintroduction of this<br />

plant in a number of potentially suitable<br />

areas it is hoped that it will re-establish<br />

itself.<br />

Now, why is the estuary trust so keen to<br />

share this information?<br />

Because we are so proud to be able to<br />

share that this plant has been introduced<br />

in the Charlesworth Wetland Reserve by<br />

ESTUARY MATTERS<br />

Fussy plant that has<br />

links to Captain Cook<br />

DOC as a trial, hoping it will survive and<br />

thrive here.<br />

And guess what? It’s working. The few<br />

introduced plants are doing well and is<br />

spreading.<br />

This fussy plant needs gravelled, open<br />

coastal areas, no competition from introduced<br />

weeds, and it needs to be occupied<br />

regularly by seabirds who leave the plant<br />

lots of guana, or bird poo, to feed on.<br />

The restored Charlesworth Wetland<br />

islands are now able to provide all this.<br />

The grass Captain Cook used to<br />

gather to help prevent scurvy on<br />

his ship.<br />

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