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, 25th
September 2007
Welcome to Kereru.
CONTENTS
1. NZERN News
2. Calendar
3. How to contact NZERN
1. NZERN NEWS
Over the weekend, Dave and Carl
shifted the 10 noisy computers which host the website to a more secure room
with temperature and noise control. The main office is being reorganised to
enable volunteers to provide a better service to NZERN members with less
effort.
2. 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 24
September 2007
Canterbury
Canterbury Ornithogical Society Meeting
Last
Monday.
Spreydon Bowling Club, Domain Terrace, Christchurch. Park vehicles
in the parks down the drive, and walk past the tennis courts to the club
pavilion.
Contact: Jan Walker (03) 322-7187
Tuesday 25 September 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 25 September 2007
Manawatu - Wanganui
Wanganui
Ornithological Society Meeting
4th Tuesday.
Evening. Davis Lecture
Theatre, Wanganui Regional Museum, Watt St.
Contact: Tom Teasdale (06)
343-9992
Tuesday 25 September 2007
Wellington
Tawa Bush Reserves -
Working Bee
4th Tuesday.
1.30pm. Improve public access tracks in Redwood
Bush, tree planting, weeding around planted trees, pest plant removal. For
updates on latest planned activities please see
www.tawabush.wellington.net.nz
Contact: Norm Robertson 04-232 6359
Wednesday 26 September 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 26 September 2007
New Zealand
Bush Telly Trust - Board
Meeting
Last Wednesday.
5.30pm
Contact: Ph (03) 980-0902
www.bush.org.nz/telly/
Wednesday 26 September 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 26 September 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
27 September 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 27 September 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 28 September 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 29 September 2007
Wellington
Silverstream Care Group
Last Saturday.
9am ? 12pm. Please meet
on Eastern Hutt Road, look out for the Take Care flag. Wear sturdy footwear
and layers of warm clothing. If you can, bring your own gloves and tools.
Usually we will have some spare tools if you just want to turn up. Morning
tea is provided.
Saturday 29 September 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 30
September 2007
Auckland
Mutukaroa [Hamlins Hill] Park Care
Last
Sunday.
1.30pm. Meet at the main entrance Great South Road [40 metres north
from Sylvia Park Rd] Mt Wellington, Auckland.
Contact: Kit Howden 629 4694
or 021 0411667
Sunday 30 September 2007
Canterbury
Charlesworth
Wetland Reserve Planting Day
Last Sunday.
10 am till 12 noon. Charlesworth
Reserve. The work will involve infill planting of coastal bush species along
the bund and weeding around existing plantings.
Contact: Victoria Keene 027
542 7490
Sunday 30 September 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 30 September 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.
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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