This free pre-conference workshop is an introduction to coastal restoration. It is highly recommended if you haven't been to a coastal restoration conference before and for council staff and councillors. If you have attended this day before you will find some repeated material, but there will also be some local information.

It focuses on understanding natural beaches and coastlines and the move away from hard engineering towards working with nature and restoring degraded coasts. Sessions will be run by former CRT trustee Jim Dahm who has many years of applied experience in working with and restoring natural ecosystems.

This day includes a short field trip in the afternoon.

The workshop includes lunch and is kindly sponsored by the Department of Conservation.

If you want to learn more after this workshop: Immediately following this we host a 3-day conference based in Whanganui, with field trips to the dunes, estuaries and wetlands of the Whanganui region. Single day options are available. For more information check out: https://tinyurl.com/Whanganui-2021