What is CBUS?
With a park at its heart, two streams, a beautiful beach and pockets of privately-owned native bush, Campbells Bay is already an urban wildlife haven. To help keep it that way, your Bush Society has founded CBUS — Campbells Bay Urban Sanctuary, a community environmental scheme designed to embrace the bay’s natural assets and help enhance, protect and promote them. The Centennial Park Bush Society manages CBUS
CBUS stakeholders include:
- Centennial Park Bush Society (leader)
- Pupuke Golf Club (leasing 40ha of Centennial Park)
- Campbells Bay Tennis Club (leasing space in Centennial Park)
- Residents of Campbells Bay
- The Wilcox family (owners of significant native bush in the northern valley)
- Campbells Bay School
- The Hibiscus & Bays Local Board
- Restore Hibiscus & Bays
- Auckland Council Parks
- Auckland Council Healthy Waters team
Where is CBUS?
The CBUS area is the catchment of Campbells Bay – the area bound by Aberdeen, East Coast and Kowhai Roads and the beach. This green “island” has already been identified as an important link in the Northwest Wildlink chain of bush remnants, connecting the islands of the Hauraki Gulf to other North Shore reserves and the Waitakere Ranges.
CBUS aims to:
- Involve all stakeholders in a positive way
- Increase the bay’s bird life
- Improve stream and beach water quality
- Safeguard the health of bush remnants and enhance the beauty of our bay by busting the weeds
- Raise awareness of which plants are pests and encourage their removal and replacement with non-invasive, bird-friendly natives and exotics
- Manage animal pests like rats and possums
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