29 Aug 2025

Meet the women behind the Kapiti wetland restoration

From Afternoons, 1:35 pm on 29 August 2025
Jill Visser manages a team of volunteers restoring an area of historic wetland in Queen Elizabeth Park on the Kāpiti Coast to its former glory.

Photo: Eraena Catsberg

A few years ago, Jill Visser was starting to panic about climate change.

She wanted to do something - anything  - to play her part.

So Jill established a volunteer group to start restoring a coastal wetland in Queen Elizabeth Park - between Paekākāriki and Raumati South, on the Kāpiti Coast around 40km north of Wellington. 

Jill Visser and Jill's right-hand woman, fellow volunteer Eraena Catsburg chat to Jesse.

Anyone interested in volunteering with any of the groups in Queen Elizabeth Park should contact Jill Visser at jillvissercox@gmail.com.