Author
Mike Peters

Prior Publication
The Bush Telegraph

Addington
This group of residents continuing to plant and maintain areas of native bush within the suburb of Addington. Activities including a regular community newsletter Addington Bush, monthly working bees, kids club and a holding nursery. Would own the "Eel Creek Reserve" using the original constitutional arrangements.

Restoration Network
A democratic membership based network of formal and informal community groups undertaking ecological restoration projects. The sole activity of the network being to create, own and distribute shared resources that no individual group would be able to do easily but that we all need in common. Eg: Kereru, The Bush Telegraph mailing list, Plant Fact Sheets, Project Reports, Restoration Directory, volunteer pool. seed banks, web sites, display material for borrowing, databases, field days, etc. A key outcome would be the strengthening of many local groups with more volunteers etc and a reduction in the wasted duplication of human effort in written material and research. The establishment of this network may lead to productive mergers with other similar regional groupings as members see fit.

Referrals
New volunteers would be passed on to local groups. Technical enquires to other organisations.

Defense of the Environment
This job is already undertaken by groups like Forest & Bird, ECO and Native Forest Action.

Keywords
NZERN  Addington Bush 

Updated 21/11/2008 4.08AM by PIPI4