stony bay, canterbury
Forest Type - Indigenous and introduced
Emission Reductions
115 tCO2 annual removals
Start Date - 1993
Project Type - Reforestation
18 hectares
Standard - ETS Permanent Category (PP89)
Stony Bay is a family-owned property located in the stunning region of Banks Peninsula.
The property has been in the family since the 1870s, and the landowners have implemented a conservation philosophy since 1975. As part of this strategy, the property has been protected in perpetuity by registering 17 hectares of native bushland with the Bank Peninsula Conservation Trust, 22 hectares with the former PFSI, now the Permanent Category in the ETS, and covenanting the land around the shore with an open space QE II covenant.
The on-farm business activities are diverse, from pastoral farming and private walking tracks.
Banks Track, which was established in 1989 as New Zealand’s first private track, gives access to the property and adjoins the 1,200-hectare Hinewai native forest restoration project next door.
In addition to acting as a permanent carbon sink, the additional income from the credit sale goes exclusively toward furthering native plantings, which overall increases biodiversity and water quality. Pest and weed management has been ongoing for over fifty years, as has the implementation of a fire hazard management strategy.
The property is a key habitat for little blue penguins nesting in the bay. It also has the last remaining mainland sooty shearwater colony and one of the few remaining populations of spotted skinks.
