Kereru is a weekly NZ e-mail for all community participants and
organisations about ecological restoration. Help bring back our natives.
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Monday, 11th
June 2007
Welcome to Kereru.
CONTENTS
1. Calendar
2. Conferences
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 12 June
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 12 June 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 12 June 2007
New Zealand
NZERN Monthly Committee
Meeting
Second Tuesday (except January).
6.30pm.
Contact: National
Secretary Simon Johnson ph: (03) 355-8150 E-mail: simonj-hrs@clear.net.nz
Tuesday 12 June 2007
Wellington
Trelissick Park, Ngaio Gorge Working
Party
2nd Tuesday.
Workbee.
Contact: Frances Lee (479-2600)
Wednesday 13 June 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 13 June 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 13 June 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 14 June 2007
Northland
Northland
Ornithological Society
2nd Thursday.
Evening meeting
Contact: Dave
Crockett (09) 435-0954
Thursday 14 June 2007
Southland
Southland
Ornithogical Society Evening Meetings
2nd Thursday.
(In conjunction with
Field Club) 7.30pm.
Contact: Phil Rhodes (03) 213-1228 or Lloyd Esler (03)
213-0404
Thursday 14 June 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 14 June 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
Thursday 14 June 2007
Wellington
Wairarapa Ornithological Society
Meeting
2nd Thursday (except January).
7.30pm. Venue alternating between
Masterton and Greytown
Contact: Barbara Lovatt (06) 304-9948
Friday 15
June 2007
Southland
Southland Community Nursery Work Day
Fridays.
Propagate your own native plants for free. Open Fridays, phone the evening
before
10am-noon. Free Arbor Day Events Propagating native plants from
cuttings.
Contact: Chris Rance (03) 213-1161 or email rances@ihug.co.nz
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~rances/
Friday 15 June 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 16 June 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 16 June 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.
Whitford Bird and Sculpture Garden. Visit renowned wildlife
artist Blake Twigden's garden and walk in free flight aviary. Explore
Whitford and Maraetai area. Cost: $30.00 including morning tea and entry
fee. Bookings: Karen Hally 528 7506.
Saturday 16 June 2007
Canterbury
Port Hills Restoration Planting
Bring Gloves, spade, sturdy
boots. Spades available. for those who don?t have one.
Meet top of Worsleys
Rd 1pm - 3.00pm - off Summit Rd west of Sign of the Kiwi.
Planting will
take place on the day, unless the weather is very inclement.
Contact: Di
Carter, Port Hills Ranger Service, on 941 7572 or 027 201 5653.
Saturday 16 June 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 16 June
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 16 June 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 17 June 2007
Auckland
Forest & Bird (Central
Auckland) Monthly Meeting
3rd Sunday (March -November).
2.30pm. Parnell
Community Centre, 545 Parnell Road
Speaker: Mike Percy - Maui Dolphin. Mike
is a keen diver and conservationist. He will give an illustrated talk about
Maui dolphin, one of the most endangered dolphin species.
Contact: Isabel
Still ph 528-3986
Sunday 17 June 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 17 June 2007
Canterbury
Addington Bush Working Party
(Normally 3rd Sunday).
10am. Planting
Contact: Mike Peters (03) 338 5451
Sunday 17 June 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 17 June 2007
Canterbury
Mahoe Reserve Planting Day
Boundary Road, Lincoln. Please bring
gloves and tools. Organised by Lincoln High School LEO group and the Lincoln
Envirotown Trust.
10am onwards
Contact: www.lincolnenvirotown.org.nz Sue
Jarvis at Lincoln High School (03) 325-2121
Sunday 17 June 2007
Marlborough
Marlborough OSNZ - Lake Grassmere Count
3rd Sunday.
Contact:
Mike Bell (03) 577-9818
Sunday 17 June 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 17 June 2007
Wellington
Nga
Uruora Kapiti - AGM & Team Muster
Speaker: Tim Park's Tanzanian Slide Show.
Way out back in Tanzania with VSA Slideshow & presentation 8-9pm. The AGM is
quick, painless & the annual report is actually very interesting.
Contact:
Fergus Wheeler (04) 905 6583
and next week ...
Monday 18 June 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 19 June 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 19 June 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 19 June 2007
Otago
Forest & Bird
(Dunedin) AGM
Forest and Bird (Dunedin). Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum. Next
entrance towards Cumberland St from main entrance. Time 7.45pm.
(AGM)
followed by: Graeme Loh, Department of Conservation. Little Auks and
Svalbard
Wednesday 20 June 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 20 June 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 20 June 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 20 June 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 21 June 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 21 June 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
22 June 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 22 June 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 23 June 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 (Familys $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 23 June 2007
Canterbury
Port Hills Restoration Planting
Bring Gloves, spade, sturdy
boots. Spades available. for those who don?t have one.
Meet Victoria Park
1pm - 4.00pm - in carpark at rear of Visitor Centre.
Planting will take
place on the day, unless the weather is very inclement.
Contact: Di Carter,
Port Hills Ranger Service, on 941 7572 or 027 201 5653.
Saturday 23
June 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 24 June 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 24 June 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
Sunday 24 June 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 24 June 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 24 June 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 24 June 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
2. CONFERENCES
Conser-Vision Conference
When
4-7 July 2007
Location
The University
of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
The purpose of the conference is to
celebrate 20 years of integrated conservation management by the New Zealand
Department of Conservation and to chart options for the future.
more
detail and other conferences at
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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