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Monday, 21th May
2007
Welcome to Kereru.
CONTENTS
1. Calendar
2. Noticeboard
3.
NZERN News
4. 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 21 May 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
Monday 21 May 2007
Wellington
Wellington
Botanical Society Meeting
3rd Monday.
7.30pm. Victoria University,
Wellington. Lecture Theatre 101, ground floor, Murphy Building, west side of
Kelburn Parade. Enter building about 20 m down Kelburn Pde from pedestrian
overbridge.
Members evening. Please share your slides and photographic
displays taken on BotSoc trips.
Tuesday 22 May 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 22 May 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
Weeding
and clearing to make room for further tree plantings during the winter.
Please meet at Wilf Mexted Reserve, top of Collins Avenue. Recommended to
bring - boots, gloves, spade or grubber, and clothing appropriate to the
weather.
Contact: Norm Robertson 04-232 6359
Wednesday 23 May 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 23 May 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 23 May 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 24 May 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 24 May 2007
Wellington
Otari-Wiltons 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
Saturday 26 May 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 (Families $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 26 May 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 26 May 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 27 May 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 27 May 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 27 May 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 27 May 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
27 May 2007
Canterbury
Halswell Quarry Park Planting Day
Halswell
Quarry Park Visitor Centre, Kennedys Bush Road, Halswell.
1-3pm
Contact:
Adam Willetts 027 4592 891
Sunday 27 May 2007
Southland
NZERN
Southland Restoration Field Day
Annual.
Trip to Walden Ponds, Mason Road
and Bushy Point Restoration Project, Otatara. Contact Chris Rance 2131161
for details.
Contact: Chris Rance ph 213-1161 rances@ihug.co.nz
Sunday
27 May 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 ...
Tuesday 29
May 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 30 May 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 30 May 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
30 May 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 31 May 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 31 May 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
Saturday 2 June 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 2 June 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 2 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 3 June 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 3 June 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 3 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 3 June 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 3 June 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
3. NOTICEBOARD
from
Frances Schmechel of Canterbury ...
Warm greetings to you all,
Notice
of AGM
You are invited to attend the Banks Peninsula Conservation Trust
AGM, Friday, 8th of June at 10 am, Little River Service Centre.
Please note
there is a resolution to amend the Trust Deed at the end of this email for
consideration at the AGM.
Change of Banks Peninsula coordinator
This
will be the last email update you'll be receiving from me as the Banks
Peninsula coordinator. I have accepted a new position working as an
ecologist in a newly created position at Environment Canterbury beginning
Monday the 28th of May. It's been a real privilege to work with the Banks
Peninsula Conservation Trust and NZ Landcare Trust these last four years.
I'll be looking forward to supporting the BPCT in my new role as
opportunities arise.
A new coordinator will be advertised and appointed
over the next few months. The generic email address for the BP coordinator
is bpct@landcare.org.nz. Correspondence to this address will be re-directed
to the appropriate person until a new appointment is made.
Funding
The
government Biodiversity Advice Fund has very generously granted the NZ
Landcare Trust three years worth of funding towards the Banks Peninsula
coordinator position, which is quite exceptional and gratefully
acknowledged.
The Canterbury Community Trust has been very generous in
funding the projects officer position for another year - an essential
position for advancing our covenant projects. The Christchurch City Council
is also contributing significantly to the Trust's covenanting work with
annual grants over the next three years.
In addition to the above we
continue to receive outstanding support from a variety of sponsors,
supporters, funders, and donations on an ongoing basis - our many thanks to
them all. I'd like to offer a personal note of thanks to the NZ Landcare
Trust and staff for their ongoing and invaluable support for the coordinator
position, and to Anderson Lloyd Lawyers for their ongoing generous support
of the BPCT.
Our new website - we now have our very own, more
user-friendly website at www.bpct.org.nz.
Still seeking photos of Banks
Peninsula !
The BPCT is seeking scenic landscape photographs of Banks
Peninsula to use for our next card series. Photographs should capture the
essence of why you think Banks Peninsula is unique. Ideas include panoramic
views, open spaces, coastal scenes, native flora and fauna, people in action
and farming scenes. The five photos chosen will be used by the BPCT for our
fund raising cards with credit attributed to the photographers. Digital
photos are preferred. If selected for the use in the cards, digital photos
must be at least 300dpi and negatives provided for print photographs. Please
submit photos to Kristina Townsend. kristina.townsend@landcare.org.nz by
June 27.
New tui restoration coordinator
We have a new part-time
coordinator for the tui restoration project, Dr. Heidi Stevens, thanks to a
grant from the Josef Langer Trust. She will start working on this project
one day per week beginning in the next couple of weeks. Heidi is the Kaupapa
Kereru coordinator, and did her PhD work on tui in the Auckland area. We
welcome her on board.
Threatened plants of Banks Peninsula booklet
update - this publication which Nick Head, botanist for DOC generously
offered to produce for us, is still in the works. It is being expanded to
include Christchurch and will come out after the current review of the
status of threatened plants is completed, probably within the next few
months.
Do you have Fenn traps you are not using?
If you do and would
like to sell them or donate them to a community trapping project, please
contact David Blair, Email: dblairs@clear.net.nz Mobile: 027 4893 890,
Phone: (03) 472 7003, Postal: 46 Meridian Street, Port Chalmers, DUNEDIN
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For consideration/discussion/voting at the 2007 Banks
Peninsula Conservation Trust AGM:
1. That clause 8 of the Trust Deed of the
Trust be amended as follows:
a. Clause 8.1 (b) be deleted and replaced
with the following:
Any trustee may be eligible for re-appointment for a
subsequent term after the expiry of their term provided however that no
trustee shall be permitted to serve for more than three consecutive terms
unless by special resolution under Clause 8.2 (h).
b. Clause 8.2 (h) be
deleted and replaced with the following:
Has held office for six
consecutive years unless the remaining Trustees unanimously and annually
resolve to continue the appointment of the retiring Trustee because of
special talents or skills which that retiring Trustee can continue to
provide to the Trust; or
3. NZERN NEWS
16/05/2007
The NZERN National
Management Committee regrets to announce that our National Treasurer Edith
Jones has tendered her resignation. Edith agreed to take on the role of
National Treasurer as a favour and as a temporary measure and has provided a
great deal of support and assistance. You will be missed Edith - on behalf
of all members thank you!.
Position of National Treasurer - NZERN is now
seeking another special person to fill the role of NZERN National Treasurer.
If you are interested in this position please let NZERN know
http:/www.bush.org.nz/nzern/contact.html
17/05/2007
NZERN Office Manager
Tracy Peters has accepted the role of temporary Office Manager. This is not
a full time position, so if your call or email is not immediately answered
please be patient, Tracy will reply as and when she can.
4. 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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