The Tree Council wants to know the address and species of the really big, rare and special trees on private land in the Auckland Region.
The group wants to create a database so that future nominations to add trees to the Notable Tree Schedule 10 can be done quickly and efficiently.
“Better prepared means better able to respond, and that means better outcomes for our special trees,” the Tree Council said.
“We will assess all the suggestions you send using arboricultural experts, so please do not waste their time by suggesting ‘normal’ trees that have no chance of passing the scheduling criteria.
“The bar for scheduling is set extremely high,” the Tree Council said.
“So we are only interested in hearing about exceptional trees. They could be extremely large/old, a particularly good example of their species, a rare or unusual species, or have some kind of historic association (we will need evidence of this). Not your average pohutukawa – sorry.”
“You can find a form to complete here for every private land address you think has exceptional tree(s) on it.
“If you don’t know the species, that’s okay please just say so. If you can tell us how many trees of which species are on the property that would be helpful, if not then say you don’t know. You can suggest multiple trees (of one or more species) on the same property.”
