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, 20th
August 2007
Welcome to Kereru.
CONTENTS
1. NZERN News
2. Calendar
3. How to contact NZERN
1. NZERN NEWS
Sending out passwords to all
members has been delayed. Live testing by 6 members of the ERIS team is
going well and progress has been rapid. Many modules are working well but
the on-line forums are not yet ready and need some more work.
When
members log-in is working, you will be able to recover your password from
http://www.bush.org.nz/support/forgotpassword.html
Just enter the email
address that Kereru is sent to as your user name and your password will be
sent to you by email.
As soon as this is working we will let you all
know.
Everyones patience is greatly appreciated.
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 20 August 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
Tuesday 21 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
21 August 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 22
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 22
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 22 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 23 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 23 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
24 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 24 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 25 August 2007
Auckland
Motuihe Trust
Saturdays on 2nd & 4th weekend..
Planting trees, collecting
seeds, nursery work, general maintenance, weed control.Transport: KawauKat
360 Discovery, Pier 3 at 9.15am. Cost $19.00 return (Family's $50). Depart
Motuihe at 2.30pm and 5.30pm. Purchase tickets at KawauKat Office adjacent
to Pier 3
Contact: For more information, contact: info@motuihe.org.nz 0800
MOTUIHE (0800 668844) www.motuihe.org.nz
Saturday 25 August 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 25 August 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 25 August 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 26
August 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 26 August 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 26
August 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 26
August 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 26 August 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 26 August 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 26 August 2007
New Zealand
NZERN National Council
4 times per year.
Phone Conference. Setting
priorities for the network
4pm Christchurch
Contact: Simon Johnson 03
382-1138
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!
How to
contact NZERN
http://www.bush.org.nz/nzern/contact.html
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Kereru is published by Bush Telly for the New Zealand
Ecological Restoration Network Inc.
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