Flocks of fantails visit the reserve, adding kowhai and other seeds to the indigenous mix. Other families and schools in the neighbourhood have also joined the society, which produces seedlings for ongoing planting projects in its own nursery. Huge interest in the Addington Bush Society took its members by surprise and threatened to become unmanageable. When operators of the Native Habitat database wanted to pass it on, Mike leapt at the opportunity. The result was a shop window for ecological restoration projects in New Zealand and an effective management tool.
Interest shows no sign of waning.
It's just phenomenal. For him the issue is simple. We stuffed it up.