Throughout the summer we'll be talking to communities that are heavily involved in conservation projects - and the people who came up with the ideas.
Debbie Mair has spent the past two years monitoring the several creeks that run through the fast growing centre of Whitby, north of Wellington.
Tuna or long finned eels and whitebait which live in the creeks which are being impacted by sedimentation from gravel and other materials from two large housing developments and the nearby Transmission Gully roadworks.
