​Who are the Cooks Beachcare Group?

• We are local resident and ratepayer volunteers protecting our valuable dunes in conjunction with local and regional councils, DOC, and the local community.
• There are Beachcare/Coast Care groups all over New Zealand with over a dozen on the Coromandel. 

What do we do?
Replace invasive exotic weeds with naturally occurring native dune plants using:

• weekly morning working bees (mainly weeding and rubbish removal).
• planting days during Autumn and/or Spring.
• Each year on average we contribute about 1,000 hours and plant over 4,000 native dune plants.

Why do we do this work?
Dunes planted in native plants help:

• protect the dunes and repair storm damage
• support our native birds, lizards, and insects

Plants and technical advice are supplied by Councils. Cooks Beachcare and the community supply the enthusiastic labour. And all work is done without significantly restricting views or beach access.

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COOKS BEACHCARE GROUP WIN PRESTIGIOUS RESTORATION AWARD!
 The Cooks Beachcare Group has been awarded with the Coastal Restoration Trust’s trophy for the “Best Coastal Restoration Project of the Year” for 2019. A huge thank you to the organisers, volunteers, Cooks Beach community, local and regional councils, and DOC whose support made this award possible. For more details see the article in the Informer.

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WHENUAKITE SCHOOL POSTERS
Check out these amazing posters from the students of Whenuakite Middle School

An NZ Herald video on the Cook Memorial Planting