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, 23rd
July 2007
Welcome to Kereru.
CONTENTS
1. Calendar
2. NZERN News
3.
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
Tuesday 24 July
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 24 July 2007
Canterbury
Travis Wetland
Trust Meeting
Tuesday after Third Saturday..
Time: 6.00pm - 7.30pm. Place:
Travis Wetland Education Centre, Beach Road.
Contact: Helen Braithwaite
(03) 328 9958
Tuesday 24 July 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 24 July 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 25 July 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 25 July 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 25 July 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 26 July 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 26 July 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
27 July 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 27 July 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 28 July 2007
Canterbury
Coastal Community Planting Day
10 am till 12 noon. Meet at the beach
between Caspian and Heron Streets. Christchurch
Contact: Jason Roberts 027
224 5906
Saturday 28 July 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
28 July 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 full day penguin main planting day, joint trip with Southland Tramping
Club. Leader Brian Rance - bookings essential for bus transport 2131161.
Contact: Brian Rance, Invercargill (03) 213 1161, Margaret Murrell, Dunedin
(03) 454-4966
Saturday 28 July 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 28 July 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 29 July 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 29 July 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
29 July 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 29 July 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 29 July 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 30 July 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 31 July 2007
Canterbury
Summit Rd Society - Ohinetahi Work Party
Tuesdays.
9am - 3pm. Maintain
Society Reserve above Governors Bay
Contact: Mike White Ph 03 312 1551
Wednesday 1 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 1 August 2007
Manawatu - Wanganui
Manawatu Ornithological
Society Beach Patrol
1st Wednesday.
and on other beaches at irregular
times.
Contact: Ian Saville (06) 323-1441
Wednesday 1 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 1 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
2 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 2 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 3 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 3 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 4 August 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 4 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 4 August 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 4 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 5 August 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 5 August 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 August 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 5 August 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 5 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 5 August 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 5 August 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. NZERN NEWS
The
August NZERN National Council will be meeting at 4pm on 26 August to discuss
possible amendments to the NZERN Constitution and to celebrate the
sucessfull roll-out of PIPI4.
A one-day NZERN National Conference will be
held on 18 November 2007 at Travis Wetland Education Centre in Christchurch.
It runs from 9am to 5pm and all members are urged to attend. Conference
registration will open soon. The Conference will be discussing the progress
in building a national network of restoration groups.
A longer National
Conference is being planned for late 2008 and will be about the challenges
and opportunities for restoration in productive rural landscapes.
more
information at
http://www.bush.org.nz/nzern/conference.html
http://www.bush.org.nz/whatson/conference.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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