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/
Monday, 17th
September 2007
Welcome to Kereru.
CONTENTS
1. NZERN News
2. Calendar
3. How to contact NZERN
1. NZERN NEWS
Last weeks testing of the help
desk has been very sucessfull.
These NZERN members have out-of-date
e-mail addresses.
Frances Schmechel (Christchurch)
Di Carter
(Christchurch)
Robert White (Lake Waikaremoana)
Alister Clarke (South
Canterbury)
Garry Corner
If anyone help provide the correct
information....
http://www.bush.org.nz/nzern/contact.html
Thanks!
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 17
September 2007
Auckland
Friends of Oakley (Te Auaunga) Creek Meeting
3rd Monday.
7.30pm. Akarana Dog Obedience Society Club Rooms, Phyllis
Reserve, Springleigh Avenue, Mt Albert.
Contact: info@oakleycreek.org.nz
Monday 17 September 2007
Canterbury
YMCA Conservation Corps at
Addington Bush
Tidy up nursery.
Contact: John Hannan 03 366-0689
Monday 17 September 2007
New Zealand
NZERN Monthly Committee Meeting
Second Tuesday (except January).
6.30pm. (replaces last weeks cancelled
meeting)
Contact: National Secretary Simon Johnson ph: (03) 355-8150
E-mail: simonj-hrs@clear.net.nz
Tuesday 18 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 18 September 2007
Canterbury
Travis Wetland Trust
Meeting
Tuesday after Third Saturday..
Time: 6.00pm - 7.30pm. Place:
Travis Wetland Education Centre, Beach Road.
Contact: Denise Ford (03)
981-3805
Wednesday 19 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 19 September 2007
Waikato
Waikato Ornithological
Society Meeting
3rd Wednesday.
7.30pm, DoC Area Office, 5 Northway St (off
Te Rapa Rd), Hamilton City.
Contact: Martin Day (07) 827-3047
Wednesday 19 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 19 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 20 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 20 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
21 September 2007
Southland
Southland Community Nursery Work Day
Fridays.
Propagate your own native plants for free. Open Fridays, phone the
evening before
Contact: Chris Rance (03) 213-1161 or email
rances@ihug.co.nz http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~rances/
Friday 21
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 22
September 2007
Southland
Tautuku Working Bee
Saturday and Sunday Visit
and help out at Lenz Reserve.
Weekend 22-23 September 2007 - Tautuku
Weekend work day . Book free accommodation with Tony Bretherick 2186137.
Contact: Barbara Boyde (03) 2160353
Saturday 22 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 23 September 2007
Auckland
Ark in the Park
4th
Sunday.
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
Sunday 23 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 23 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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