2025 Post Graduate Scholarship Award
The Coastal Restoration Trust’s committee is very pleased to announce the winner of the Coastal Restoration Trust Post Graduate Scholarship for 2025 is Natalie Prinz, a PhD candidate at Waikato…
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New Zealand’s coastal environments are one of the most important and most degraded landscapes in the country. Sand dunes are our natural barrier to the sea. If well looked after, dune systems lessen coastal hazards and erosion, they provide backdrop to our summer holidays, picturesque views, and habitat for those crazy plants and animals adapted to live between two worlds – land and sea.
The Coastal Restoration Trust is a nationwide organisation that brings together the knowledge and experience of communities, iwi, management authorities, industry and science agencies to restore coastal ecosystems. Help us and the already thousands of enthusiastic folks out there protecting our coast!
The Coastal Restoration Trust is an incorporated Charitable Trust formed in 2007 as the Dune Restoration Trust that, in turn, continued the work of the Coastal Dune Vegetation Network. Our aim is to support and encourage the development of cost effective practical methods for coastal communities and management authorities to restore coastal ecosystems and their function.
The Coastal Restoration Trust has partnered with Southlight to produce another video, this time on Restoring Kāpiti Coast. This video takes a close look at the coastal processes on the Kāpiti Coast, the dune ecosystem and how communities can work with Kāpiti Coast District Council to restore dunes to help buffer the land from the impacts of severe weather events.
The Coastal Restoration Trust’s committee is very pleased to announce the winner of the Coastal Restoration Trust Post Graduate Scholarship for 2025 is Natalie Prinz, a PhD candidate at Waikato…