Wekanui Wetland Nature Heritage Park is a lowland freshwater wetland - an ecosystem that is now scarce throughout the country. It has significant pukeko population.

Contents

1. Description
2. Pictures
3. Social history
4. Location
5. Community involvement
6. Climate
7. Soils
8. Ecosystems
9. Pests
10. Weeds
11. Native species
12. See also
13. External links
14. Further reading
15. Information provided by

About 400 AD Wekanui Wetland was part of an Estuary and looked similar to the present-day Avon Heathcote salt marshes. As the estuary sand bar gradually closed off to the sea, decreasing salinity allowed flax (harakeke), raupo, tussock, baumea sedges etc etc. Several paragraphs go here.

Volunteers
The Wekanui Wetland Trust has been an active force in the wetland since 1990. School and community groups are involved in planting and weed control. Involvement of volunteers has many spin-offs including the fostering of community spirit.

More pictures

Project began in 1986, etc etc. Saved by popular protest led by Anne Flanaghan.

Something Rd, Burwood, Christchurch.

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Wekanui Wetland Trust, Christchurch City Council, Manuka Group, CPIT.

Climate (edit)

Oceanic, cool temperate, humid, frequently cloudy; windy, exposed on W to prevailing W and SW winds; rainfall 1600-4000mm p.a. evenly spread; intermittent snow-lie on tops, light frosts on coasts, heavier inland.

Soil Orders (edit)

• Brown
• Recent

Ecosystems (edit)

• Wetland
• Dune

Pests (edit)

Blurb about pest threats and control.

Weeds (edit)

Blurb about weed threats and control.

Native species (edit)

Blurb about native species.

See also (edit)

• Wekanui Wetland Trust
• Anne Flanaghan

External links (edit)

• www.wetlandsnz.org.nz
• www.banrock.com
• www.ccc.govt.nzl

Further reading (edit)

• Wetlands of Christchurch

Information provided by (edit)

George Smith, Mary Taylor, Paki Jones

Keywords (edit)
Wekanui Wetland   Wekanui Swamp   Wekanui Wetland Nature Heritage Park    Freds Swamp

Last updated 2 December 2007 3.41PM by PIPI