DOC's work with Olearia hectorii
DOC workers surveying an Olearia
hectorii site
DOC has a recovery plan covering the eight rare, small-leaved tree daisies that Olearia hectorii belongs to. The recovery plan aims to secure viable populations of each tree daisy at sites that best represent its distribution and ecology. Achieving this requires controlling threats, providing physical and legal protection, improving the habitat, and enhancing populations at selected locations.
These protective steps are especially important for Olearia hectorii, as very few specimens are found on conservation land, most are on private property. The Small-leaved Tree Daisy Recovery Plan has several objectives.
- Make key stakeholders aware of the demise of our rare, small-leaved tree daisies, and gain their support for actions that will restore the species.
- Gain the support of relevant Iwi and involve them in the recovery of our rare small-leaved tree daisies.
- Determine sites that are representative of the original distribution and ecological variability of each species.
- Ensure that priority sites of rare small-leaved tree daisies are both secure and maintained.
- Develop management and research programmes that improve knowledge of tree daisy ecology and the range of threats to each species' survival.