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, 27th
August 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 27
August 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 28 August 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 28 August 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 28 August 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 29 August 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 29 August 2007
New Zealand
Bush Telly Trust - Board Meeting
Last Wednesday.
6.15pm
Contact: Ph (03) 980-0902 www.bush.org.nz/telly/
Wednesday 29 August 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 29 August
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 30 August 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 30 August 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
31 August 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 31 August 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 1 September 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 1 September 2007
Canterbury
Otamahua/Quail Island Winter
Planting Days
Saturdays & Sundays (Winter).
Ferry departs 'B' jetty
Lyttelton at 9.20am, returns at 3.30pm. The ferry is free for participants,
bookings essential. Please bring spade or grubber, strong footwear, warm
clothing with hat, lunch and a drink.
Maximum of 35 participants.
Contact:
Phone Bev & Ian MacDonald (03) 332-5322 ihmacd@paradise.net.nz
Saturday
1 September 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 1 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 2 September 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 2 September 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 2 September 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 2 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 2 September 2007
Canterbury
Otamahua/Quail Island Winter
Planting Days
Saturdays & Sundays (Winter).
Ferry departs 'B' jetty
Lyttelton at 9.20am, returns at 3.30pm. The ferry is free for participants,
bookings essential. Please bring spade or grubber, strong footwear, warm
clothing with hat, lunch and a drink.
Maximum of 35 participants.
Contact:
Phone Bev & Ian MacDonald (03) 332-5322 ihmacd@paradise.net.nz
Sunday 2
September 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 2 September 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 2 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.
Sunday 2 September 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 2 September 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
2. 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.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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Kereru is published by Bush Telly for the New Zealand
Ecological Restoration Network Inc.
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