Kereru is a weekly NZ e-mail for all community participants and
organisations about ecological restoration. Help bring back our natives.
Kereru is available at
http://www.bush.org.nz/kereru/
Tuesday, 1st
October 2007
Welcome to Kereru.
CONTENTS
1. Calendar
2. How to
contact NZERN
1. CALENDAR
(This is a partial listing while the events
database is currently being updated)
more calendar at
http://www.bush.org.nz/whatson/calendar.html
This week
Monday 1
October 2007
Nelson
Nelson Ornithological Society Meeting
Usually 1st
Monday.
7.15 pm, upstairs at 50 Halifax Street, Nelson
Contact: Steve Wood
(03) 528-6438
Monday 1 October 2007
Wellington
Wellington
Ornithological Society Meeting
1st Monday.
Conservation House, Wellington.
Contact: Ian Armitage (04) 232-7470
Tuesday 2 October 2007
Auckland
Auckland Ornithological Society
1st Tuesday (except January).
7.45pm Natural Science Building 23, Unitec, Point Chevalier.
Contact: Suzi
Phillips (09) 479-5395
Tuesday 2 October 2007
Canterbury
Summit Rd
Society - Ohinetahi Work Party
Tuesdays.
9am - 3pm. Maintain Society
Reserve above Governors Bay
Contact: Mike White Ph 03 312 1551
Tuesday
2 October 2007
Taranaki
Taranaki Ornithological Society Meeting
First
Tuesday (except January).
7.30pm
Contact: Barry Hartley (06) 757 8644
Wednesday 3 October 2007
Auckland
Tahuna Torea Reserve Park Care
Wednesday.
Volunteers required for park care tasks including releasing
[weeding] and tree planting. End of West Tamaki Road, Glendowie. 9.30am.
Contact: Ph. David Bowden, Parks Volunteer Coordinator on 09 3792020
Wednesday 3 October 2007
Manawatu - Wanganui
Manawatu Ornithological
Society Beach Patrol
1st Wednesday.
and on other beaches at irregular
times.
Contact: Ian Saville (06) 323-1441
Wednesday 3 October 2007
Wellington
Manawa Karioi Working Bee
Wednesdays.
10am - 3.30pm. Tools &
lunch provided
Contact: Morgan Cox, phone 383 9987, or Sally Bowman, phone
934 7041
Wednesday 3 October 2007
Wellington
Wellington Home
Nursery
Wednesday.
Nursery potting up and seed propagation. Evening
session 7.30pm till 9.30pm
Contact: Gary James (04) 938-6751
Thursday
4 October 2007
Wellington
Kaitawa Reserve Working Party
Thursday.
8.30am - noon at Riwai Street for planting and release work.
Contact: John
Mclauchlan 04-904-0027, Judy Petterson grandjudy@paradise.net.nz
Thursday 4 October 2007
Wellington
Otari-Wilton's Bush Trust
Thursday.
Workbee. Meet: 8.30am Information Centre / Te Marae o Tane, 160 Wilton
Road, Wilton.
Contact: Ph: Jonathan Kennett or Bronwen Wall 472 5891,
e-mail: jonathan@kennett.co.nz
Friday 5 October 2007
Waikato
Hamilton Junior Naturalists Club
Fridays.
7 - 8.30 pm down at the Gardens
in the Wintec Horticultural Centre.
Contact: Dave Matthews (07) 846-4013
(home) or (07) 850-8458 (work)
Saturday 6 October 2007
Auckland
Ark in the Park
1st Saturday.
Meet: Cascades Rangers' workshop behind the
Rangers' house, Cascades Kauri Park
Contact: John Sumich 818 5267
cjnk@xtra.co.nz or Karen Colgan 837 0443 mcolgan@netaccess.co.nz
Saturday 6 October 2007
Wellington
Nga Uruora Kapiti Project
1st
Saturday.
Workbee and plant sales: at Paekakariki School Nursery
Contact:
Ph 04 905 6583, email: nukapiti@hotmail.com, webpage: www.kapitibush.org.nz
Saturday 6 October 2007
Wellington
Southern Environmental
Association
Saturdays.
2 - 6pm. Workbee for SEA forest / coastal
restoration project. Potting up, weeding and planting. Meet at the SEA
native plant nursery, Lower Murchison Street, Island Bay, Wellington. (on
the western side of the park, accessed by entering the park opposite 21
Murchison Street). All help is welcomed, even for a short time. Tools and
afternoon tea provided
Contact: June Epsom (04) 384 5175
Sunday 7
October 2007
Auckland
Friends of Oakley (Te Auaunga) Creek Work Day
1st Sunday.
Planting, weeding, clean-ups etc. 10aam-12noon.
Contact:
info@oakleycreek.org.nz
Sunday 7 October 2007
Auckland
Maungawhau
[Mt Eden] Batger Restoration Project
1st Sunday.
1.30pm. Join the group
restoring the forest, planting, maintaining tracks and caring for Maungawhau
/Mt Eden. Also work in the Community Nursery and be involved in the future
of this national heritage park. Meet Batger Rd, Mt Eden, Auckland.[Off Mt
Eden Rd.]
Contact: Kit Howden 629 4694 or 021 0411667
Sunday 7
October 2007
Auckland
Motutapu Restoration Trust - Work Day
1st, 3rd
and 5th Sunday of each month, except where the Sunday coincides with a long
weekend..
The Motutapu Restoration Trust holds regular volunteer work days
where you can help in the conservation work on the island.
Nursery/weedbusting
Contact: Please register by email
(admin@motutapu.org.nz) or by phone 09-524-5072 or 09-522-0919 if you plan
to join us (we need to have an indication of numbers for our planning).
Sunday 7 October 2007
Canterbury
Clarevale Reserve Working Party
Sundays.
1 - 4pm, Clarevale Reserve, Travis Country Drive. Native Habitats
restoring and caring for a corner of Travis Wetland in association with a
study of the re-establishment of kahikatea forest. Please bring gumboots,
work clothes and gloves if you have them. Other tools provided.
Contact:
Contact Dave Evans beforehand as times and days are flexible and may vary.
ph 366 0628, dave.evans@alliedtelesyn.co.nz
Sunday 7 October 2007
Waikato
Barrett Bush Working Party
1st Sunday.
9am - 12 noon. 1km west of
Koromatua School. Work involves weeding, planting and releasing. Bring
gloves, a spade and something for morning tea.
Contact: Bunny Mortimer (07)
849-8004
Sunday 7 October 2007
Waikato
Ecosourcing Waikato -
Nursery Day
1st Sunday.
Pricking out/potting up session. 3pm. Held at the
Waikato Tree Trust nursery site at McMikens orchard just past Newstead on
Morrinsville Rd.
Contact: Wayne Bennett (07) 824-7167
Sunday 7 October
2007
Wellington
Common Ground
Sundays.
11 a.m. - 3 p.m. Ground
clearance, gorse cutting, seaweed collection, building compost heaps and
plots, composting, pruning. BYO tools. All welcome, rain or shine. Meet at
Home of Compassion, Island Bay, behind Aubert Childcare Centre.
Contact:
Donna Byrne donna.byrne@paradise.net.nz.
Sunday 7 October 2007
Wellington
Nga Uruora Kapiti Project
1st Sunday.
Workbee at Pukerua Bay
School Nursery
Contact: Ph 04 905 6583, email: nukapiti@hotmail.com,
webpage: www.kapitibush.org.nz
Sunday 7 October 2007
Wellington
Trelissick Park, Ngaio Gorge Working Party
1st Sunday.
Workbee
Contact:
Frances Lee (04) 479-2600
more calendar at
http://www.bush.org.nz/whatson/calendar.html
3. HOW TO CONTACT NZERN
NZERN's main on-line resource is at www.bush.org.nz. Please encourage people
to use this and let us know how they would like to see it developed. People
without easy access to a computer can still use this resource at most public
libraries.
Useful Pages
* http://www.bush.org.nz/nzern/ - about NZERN.
* http://www.bush.org.nz/whatson/ - what is on in your area, how to
volunteer.
* http://www.bush.org.nz/toolbox/ - look up suitable native
plants for your area.
* http://www.bush.org.nz/directory/ - list of groups,
nurseries and restoration sites. Help with a restoration project in your
area!
* http://www.bush.org.nz/forum/ - forums
*
http://www.help.bush.org.nz - how the members only website works
How to
contact NZERN
http://www.bush.org.nz/nzern/contact.html
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