This year Canterbury Conservation Day 2004 will be held on Sunday 18 April 2004.
The theme is "Grow Canterbury", highlighting the varied benefits of
growing appropriate, native Canterbury plants, including their ability to survive
droughts and for some species to be low to moderate fire resistant plants.
Programme:
10.15 a.m. Official opening of Conservation Resource Centre
10.30 a.m. Canterbury Plains/limestone plants garden tour - Nick Head, DOC
botanist
10.50 a.m. Coastal plants garden tour - Rodney Chambers, CCC Coast Care
11.10 a.m. What's up with weeds - identifying and controlling weeds with questions
and answers - CCC and DOC staff
12.15 p.m. The "Grow Canterbury" great debate
Is there a place for exotics in Canterbury? MC - Bob Parker, Mayor of Banks
Peninsula District Council
1.30 p.m. "Canterbury in the time of the moa" - Geoff Rogers, DOC
Scientific Officer Otago,
2.30 p.m. Banks Peninsula garden tour - Hugh Wilson, manager Hinewai Reserve
2.50 p.m. Wetlands garden tour - Colin Meurk, Landcare Research/CCC ecologist
