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Monday, 13th
August 2007
Welcome to Kereru.
CONTENTS
1. NZERN News
2. Calendar
3. How to contact NZERN
1. NZERN NEWS
Next weeks Kereru will explain how
all NZERN members can obtain their passwords, how to log in to the new
members only area, and use the on-line forums.
The ERIS team have been
logging in and testing the new setup in as many ways as possible. The Bush
Telly crew will get password access in a few days to test the on-line
forums.
A very large number of free web-based services will be made
available to all individual and group members of NZERN. It is planned to add
about five of these services each week, starting with the ones most people
will use most often. Details will be provided in Kereru each week.
If you
have questions about this, it would be very helpful if you could wait till
you can access the forums to have your say.
For those who are curious,
screen shots of some of these services can be seen at:
http://www.help.bush.org.nz/eng/standard/index.html
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
Tuesday 14
August 2007
Auckland
South Auckland Ornithological Society Meeting
2nd
Tuesday (Feb - Nov).
7.45pm Papakura Croquet Clubrooms, 5 Chapel St,
Papakura.
Contact: David Lawrie (09) 238-8407
Tuesday 14 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 14 August 2007
Southland
Forest & Bird
(Southland) Meeting
Venue for talks SIT Tay Street, Room B1/11 commencing
at 7.30pm except the AGM which will start at 7.00pm.
Illustrated talk -
?Other options for dealing with waste in an environmentally friendly way? -
Neville Burt, Director of Bokashi NZ Ltd. www.bokashi.co.nz.
Contact:
Barbara Boyd (03) 216 0353
Tuesday 14 August 2007
New Zealand
NZERN Monthly Committee Meeting
Second Tuesday (except January).
7.15pm.
Contact: National Secretary Simon Johnson ph: (03) 355-8150 E-mail:
simonj-hrs@clear.net.nz
Tuesday 14 August 2007
Wellington
Trelissick Park, Ngaio Gorge Working Party
2nd Tuesday.
Workbee.
Contact:
Frances Lee (479-2600)
Wednesday 15 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 15 August 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 15 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 15
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 16 August 2007
Auckland
Motuihe Trust
Sundays on 2nd & 4th weekend..
Planting trees, collecting
seeds, nursery work, general maintenance, weed control. Transport: Fullers
Ferry, Pier 1 at 9.15am and Devonport at 9.20am. Cost $15.00. Depart Motuihe
at 4.30pm. Purchase tickets from Fullers ticket office
Contact: For more
information, contact: info@motuihe.org.nz 0800 MOTUIHE (0800 668844)
www.motuihe.org.nz
Thursday 16 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 16 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
17 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 17 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 18 August 2007
Auckland
Ark in the Park
3rd 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 18 August 2007
Auckland
Forest & Bird (Central Auckland) Trip
Unless otherwise stated the bus will leave from the lower Albert Street bus
stop at 9.00 am. Trips heading south also pick up at Harp of Erin. Trips
heading north also pick up at Point Chevalier. Please book with the person
named for the trip you wish to go on, and advise where you will be boarding
the bus. You should be suitably clad and shod for the area and conditions
expected.
Eastern Suburbs Reserves. Explore some more reserves in this area
and enjoy a hot pub lunch! Cost: $30.00 (includes lunch). Bookings: Sally
Hally 528 7506.
Saturday 18 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 18 August 2007
Canterbury
Travis
Wetland Trust Working Party
3rd Saturday.
Time: 9am - 12 noon Place: Meet
at the Travis Wetland Educaton Centre, end of Beach Road. The workdays are
an opportunity to learn about wetland ecology and restoration. Stay as long
as you wish. Gumboots are recommended.
Contact: Joe Greenaway (03) 383 2073
Saturday 18 August 2007
Southland
Te Rere Working Bee
Four times
a year.
Your chance to help hoiho at Forest and Bird's Te Rere Reserve.
Depart 8.30am Southland Museum. Transport also from Dunedin.
www.converge.org.nz/fbsth
Te Rere work day. Leaders Tony Bretherick
(2186137) and John Henderson (2131245).
Contact: Brian Rance, Invercargill
(03) 213 1161, Margaret Murrell, Dunedin (03) 454-4966
Saturday 18
August 2007
Waikato
Jubilee Bush Care Group
3rd Saturday.
9am.
Weedbusting tradescantia and ongoing maintenance. Bring a rake, stout
footwear, gardening gloves, and stay for a barbecue and juice afterwards.
Contact: Katherine at the Environment Centre (07) 839-4452
Saturday 18
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 19 August 2007
Auckland
Forest & Bird
(Central Auckland) Monthly Meeting
3rd Sunday (March -November).
2.30pm.
Parnell Community Centre, 545 Parnell Road
Speaker: Tim Martin - Kaikoura
Island. Tim is an ecologist and trustee of Kaikaura Island. Come along and
find out the plans for the island.
Contact: Isabel Still ph 528-3986
Sunday 19 August 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.
Planting
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 19 August 2007
Canterbury
Addington Bush Working Party
(Normally 3rd Sunday).
10am.
Planting
Contact: Mike Peters (03) 338 5451
Sunday 19 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 19 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 19 August 2007
Marlborough
Marlborough OSNZ - Lake Grassmere Count
3rd Sunday.
Contact: Mike Bell
(03) 577-9818
Sunday 19 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.
and next 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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