Kereru is a weekly NZ e-mail for all community participants and
organisations about ecological restoration. Relevant notices are very
welcome, please contact us. Help bring back our natives.
Kereru is available at
http://www.bush.org.nz/kereru/
Monday, 26 August 2002
Welcome to Kereru.
CONTENTS
2. Calendar
3. Noticeboard
7. NZERN News
8. How to contact NZERN
2. CALENDAR
This week...
Monday 26
Wellington
Matiu/Somes Working Party
2nd & 4th Monday
Meet 10.30am Day's Bay Ferry. Return 4.30pm.
Alex Kettles (04) 569-6208 or Stan Butcher (04) 567-7271
Tuesday 27
Wellington
Greendale Working Party
Tuesdays
8.30am at reserve for planting and release work.
Phil Palmer 04-298-2952
Tuesday 27
Canterbury
Sign of Kiwi to Sign of Bellbird Working Party
Tuesdays
9am-3pm, Summit Rd Society. "West Enders" (Ohinetahi gang and Kiwi gang)
Leaves from 11a Colombo St.
Gordon Kirk (03) 332 7134
Tuesday 27
Wellington
Waimeha Lagoon Working Party
2nd & 4th Tuesday from May till October
3pm till 5pm. Meet at Charles Fleming memorial rock, Eruini St, Waikanae
Pam Sinclair (04) 293 1790
Wednesday 28
Canterbury
Earthwise - Plains FM 96.9
Wednesdays
Local and Global Issues 8:30pm
Wednesday 28
Auckland
Kaipataki Project Working Bees
Every Wednesday to Sunday
9am-12pm. Includes releasing, weeding, mulching, nursery work, planting
preparation, planting etc.
Edwina or Renee KERP (09) 482-1172
Wednesday 28
Wellington
Kapiti Forest & Bird Monthly Meeting
Last Wednesday except December and January
David Gregorie 04-904-2183
Wednesday 28
Wellington
Manawa Karioi Working Bee
Wednesdays
10am. Lunch provided
Sally (04) 934 7041
Wednesday 28
Manawatu - Wanganui
Potting up seedlings at Oxenham Bush
Wednesdays
Volunteers required to pot up native seedlings for Oxenham Bush, 708
Kahuterawa Road, Palmertson North.
Hugh Oxenham ph 06 357-0014
Wednesday 28
Wellington
Upper Hutt Forest & Bird Branch Meeting
4th Wednesday
7.30pm. Wallaceville Research Centre Seminar Room, Wards St, Upper Hutt
Barry Wards (04) 970 4266
Wednesday 28
Wellington
Wellington Home Nursery
Wednesday
Nursery potting up and seed propagation. Evening session 7.30pm till 9.30pm
Gary James (04) 938-6751
Thursday 29
Auckland
Friends of Shepherds Park
Thursdays
Meet at headland, walkway off Cresta Avenue 9.30am
Ces Thomas (09) 483-6601
Thursday 29
Wellington
Kaitawa Reserve Working Party
Thursday
Meet 8.30am at Riwai Street for planting and release work.
John Mclauchlan 04-904-0027
Thursday 29
Canterbury
Mt Vernon Working Party
Thursdays.
1.30 - 4pm. Port Hills Park Trust Board.
Anne Kennedy (03) 337 0364, Dave Bates (03) 332 6233
Friday 30
Southland
Working Day at Southland Community Nursery
Fridays
Help with native plant nursery work - potting, seed sowing, weeding, moving
plants. Phone Thursday night before coming (2131161)
Phone Chris Thursday evening 213 1161
Saturday 31
Manawatu - Wanganui
Potting up seedlings at Oxenham Bush
Saturdays
Volunteers required to pot up native seedlings for Oxenham Bush, 708
Kahuterawa Road, Palmertson North.
Hugh Oxenham ph 06 357-0014
Sunday 1
Waikato
Barrett Bush Working Party
First Sunday
9am - 12 noon. Work involves weeding, planting and releasing. Bring tools.
Mairi Jay mairij@waikato.ac.nz or Bunny Mortimer (07) 847 5847
Sunday 1
Auckland
Friends of Shepherds Park
Sundays
Meet at headland, walkway offf Cresta Avenue. 9.30am
Ces Thomas (09) 483-6601
Sunday 1
Auckland
Kauri Grove Reserve and Three Streams Arboretum Working Party
Every Weekend
Walkway construction and revegetation in Albany
John Hogan (09) 415-9336
Sunday 1
Bay of Plenty
Rotorua Botanical Society Field trip
Lindemann Loop track, Kaimai Range. Leader: Walter Stahel.
Sunday 1
Wellington
Trelissick Park, Ngaio Gorge Working Party
First Sunday
Meet at Trelissick Crescent, Ngaio at 1.30pm. Bring gardening gloves,
poppers, spade, mattock etc.
Frances Lee (479-2600)
and next week...
Monday 2
Wellington
Pauatahanui Wetlands Reserve
1st & 3rd Monday
Work party 9am.
Ron Freeston, (04) 589-9232
Tuesday 3
Wellington
Greendale Working Party
Tuesdays
8.30am at reserve for planting and release work.
Phil Palmer 04-298-2952
Tuesday 3
Canterbury
NZERN Monthly Committee Meeting
First Tuesday (except January)
7.15pm
National Secretary Simon Johnson ph: (03) 355-8150 E-mail:
simonj-hrs@clear.net.nz
Tuesday 3
Canterbury
Sign of Kiwi to Sign of Bellbird Working Party
Tuesdays
9am-3pm, Summit Rd Society. "West Enders" (Ohinetahi gang and Kiwi gang)
Leaves from 11a Colombo St.
Gordon Kirk (03) 332 7134
Tuesday 3
Otago
STOP, Save the Otago Peninsula meeting
First Tuesday of every month
Broad Bay Plunket rooms 7.30pm.
Helen Clarke (03) 478 0311
Wednesday 4
Canterbury
Earthwise - Plains FM 96.9
Wednesdays
Local and Global Issues 8:30pm
Wednesday 4
Auckland
Kaipataki Project Working Bees
Every Wednesday to Sunday
9am-12pm. Includes releasing, weeding, mulching, nursery work, planting
preparation, planting etc.
Edwina or Renee KERP (09) 482-1172
Wednesday 4
Wellington
Manawa Karioi Working Bee
Wednesdays
10am. Lunch provided
Sally (04) 934 7041
Wednesday 4
Manawatu - Wanganui
Potting up seedlings at Oxenham Bush
Wednesdays
Volunteers required to pot up native seedlings for Oxenham Bush, 708
Kahuterawa Road, Palmertson North.
Hugh Oxenham ph 06 357-0014
Wednesday 4
Wellington
Wellington Home Nursery
Wednesday
Nursery potting up and seed propagation. Evening session 7.30pm till 9.30pm
Gary James (04) 938-6751
Thursday 5
Auckland
Friends of Shepherds Park
Thursdays
Meet at headland, walkway off Cresta Avenue 9.30am
Ces Thomas (09) 483-6601
Thursday 5
Wellington
Kaitawa Reserve Working Party
Thursday
Meet 8.30am at Riwai Street for planting and release work.
John Mclauchlan 04-904-0027
Thursday 5
Wellington
Lower Hutt Forest & Bird Branch Meeting
1st Thursday 7.30pm. Tramping Club Hall, Birch St, Lower Hutt.
Thursday 5
Canterbury
Mt Vernon Working Party
Thursdays.
1.30 - 4pm. Port Hills Park Trust Board.
Anne Kennedy (03) 337 0364, Dave Bates (03) 332 6233
Friday 6
Southland
Working Day at Southland Community Nursery
Fridays
Help with native plant nursery work - potting, seed sowing, weeding, moving
plants. Phone Thursday night before coming (2131161)
Phone Chris Thursday evening 213 1161
Saturday 7
Canterbury
Kakahu Bush Working Group
First Saturday, except January
Meet at the Lime Kiln on Hall Road near Geraldine, 9:30 am (morning session)
and/or 1:30 pm (afternoon session). Hands-on activities to help restoration
of Kakahu Bush.
John Talbot 03 614 7433 jtalbot@es.co.nz
Saturday 7
Manawatu - Wanganui
Potting up seedlings at Oxenham Bush
Saturdays
Volunteers required to pot up native seedlings for Oxenham Bush, 708
Kahuterawa Road, Palmertson North.
Hugh Oxenham ph 06 357-0014
Saturday 7
Wellington
Wellington Botanical Society Field Trip
1st Saturday
Otari-Wilton's Bush-Johnston Hill Reserve.
Sunday 8
Canterbury
Clarevale Reserve Working Party
2nd and 4th Sundays
10am, Native Habitats. Go to Clarevale Rd off Burwood Rd. Plans to help
restore 1.25ha of gorse and willows into tall native forest. The project
runs in conjunction with a scientific study. Bring work clothes, lunch,
gloves and spade or grubber. Phone or email first.
Dave Evans 366 0628 or Dave.Evans@alliedtelesyn.co.nz
Sunday 8
Auckland
Friends of Shepherds Park
Sundays
Meet at headland, walkway offf Cresta Avenue. 9.30am
Ces Thomas (09) 483-6601
Sunday 8
Auckland
Kauri Grove Reserve and Three Streams Arboretum Working Party
Every Weekend
Walkway construction and revegetation in Albany
John Hogan (09) 415-9336
Sunday 8
Wellington
Manawa Karioi Working Bee
Second Sunday
9.30am -3.30pm. Tools and lunch provided.
Sally (04) 934 7041
(add your calendar items at http://www.bush.org.nz/calendar/
3. NOTICEBOARD
312 From Steve Bush of Canterbury...
Planting
There will be a planting of 1000 trees on Sunday 1st September at Styx
Mill Conservation Area. This will begin at 1pm and everyone is invited
along. Meet at the carpark on Styx Mill Rd north of the transfer station.
Bring a spade, friends and family. For more information contact Robin Stove
on 3328586.
Robin Stove
315 From Steve Bush of Canterbury...
TFC Trivia Night
Trees for Canterbury will be holding its annual Trivia Night on the
14th October at the Captains Misteak Restaurant. Tickets are $20 per team
(team of 4) and are limited to 40 teams. There will be loads of prizes,
supper, bar and heaps of laughter. Tickets sell fast and will be presold. If
you are interested contact Steve on 3328586 or come on down to the nursery
at 261 Opawa Rd.
Steve
316 From Rolien Elliot of Auckland...
Request for support for the removal of kiore from Hauturu (Little Barrier
Island)
The Department of Conservation is seeking support for a resource consent
application to remove kiore from Hauturu (Little Barrier Island). We
appreciate the interest you as NZERN members are likely to have in such a
proposal and we would welcome your support.
Hauturu is one of New Zealand's most prized nature reserves, home to an
array of rare and threatened native species. However the presence of kiore
is disrupting natural ecosystem processes such as regeneration of forest
trees, and is also causing the decline of some threatened species.
Feral cats were eradicated from Hauturu in 1980, and if the island is to be
a true sanctuary for remaining populations of some of our most endangered
species, kiore need to be removed from the island also.
This action will not put kiore at risk of extinction. Kiore remain on Aotea
and a number of other New Zealand islands. They also live in some areas on
mainland New Zealand and on about 250 islands scattered throughout the
Pacific.
The Department would like to proceed with an operation to eradicate kiore
from Hauturu in the winter of 2003. The preferred method is to spread rat
baits containing brodificaoum by helicopter. This method has been used very
successfully on other islands such as Kapiti and Whenua Hou (Codfish).
The attached background information outlines in more detail why the
Department believes the operation is necessary and what it would involve. If
you have any questions about this proposal I would be happy to discuss these
with you at any time.
We will be required to obtain resource consents for the storage and
transportation of the rat bait from the Auckland City Council, and to
discharge contaminants onto land and water from the Auckland Regional
Council, to cover the possibility that some rat bait might fall from the
cliffs into the sea. However, there is little risk to marine life if this
occurs.
We would very much appreciate letters of support for the operation. Please
send all correspondence to Richard Griffiths at the address below.
Yours sincerely
Rolien Elliot
Area Manager,
Warkworth Area Office
PO Box 474
Warkworth
There is a supporting article at this location (Ed.)
http://www.members.bush.org.nz/article/Article.cfm?ArticleID=642
(Send your notices as you want them to appear from your password protected
areas
more notices at http://www.bush.org.nz/notice/
7. NZERN News
25/08/2002
Bush Telly
A draft operational plan for the Bush Telly Trust is being circulated.
Nominations for trustees will need to be callled soon to replace the initial
ones who will be standing down. A digital video editing suite will be
ordered in the next month....
25/08/2002
Pipi Update
Progress on Website revisions have been held up and so we are running 2
weeks behind schedule. This is due to the time it took to create the new
on-line accounting system which gives members reciepts/statements. And which
will need more work soon!!
The next job to be done starting tonight - the regional versions of Kereru.
Colin Meurk's "PlanterGuide" admin area will now be fitted in between the
"BirdGuide" database from Harry Boufal and the "Plant Propagation" database
from Edith Jones. These systems are very similar in operation....
25/08/2002
Fundraising
Microsoft Project 2000 has been installed thanks to a grant from DoC via the
TFBIS fund. This has created an "in house website" for volunteer staff.
It is now possible to track progress on:
The multitude of bits of the "Pipi" computer system as they get built
Bush Telly
Publications
Field days
etc etc...
Mike is losing too much hair these days trying to keep track of everything
so this bit of software is an automated tool for doing just that job. Thanks
heaps DoC....
25/08/2002
NZERN National Conference
Registrations open next week for the National Conference. The Northern
branch is organising the event to be held November 16 & 17 at Tapu Te Ranga
Marae. Danube St. Island Bay. Wellington. Information will be posted on the
website under NZERN as it comes available.
Each branch is entitled to send voting delegates to the conference. Any
members or supporters are also very welcome to attend....
25/08/2002
GIS
The first maps are being pumped out by the students fron NZERN's school.
These will be loaded up in batches onto the website from next week. The
students have a task of creating 500 maps by the end of September. The
ecological region maps are 3/4 complete.
Well done!...
25/08/2002
Restoration Day
A reminder that the Canterbury Restoration day is to be held this year at
Riccarton Bush on Sunday September 29 from 10am to 3pm. Groups with displays
can drop them off after 9am. Entry is by gold coin donation (to help raise
funds for the local branch. Everyone is welcome.
more info at
http://www.members.bush.org.nz/notice/notice.cfm?NoticeID=285
...
For more nzern news http://www.bush.org.nz/nzern/
8. CONTACT
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/join/ - become a member or affiliate member of
NZERN. Lets you subscribe to Kereru, add articles to the web site, etc.
* http://www.bush.org.nz/nzern/ - your NZERN Regional Rep. How to contact
him or her.
* http://www.bush.org.nz/organisation/ - list of groups. Help with a
restoration project in your area!
* http://www.bush.org.nz/site/ - list of restoration sites in New Zealand.
Explains how to add sites to the list.
* http://www.bush.org.nz/planterguide/ - look up suitable plants for your
area.
Newsletter Inserts
Brochures etc. relevant to restoration can be distributed on behalf of other
organisations as inserts in the quarterly print newsletter. See
http://www.bush.org.nz/telegraph/ for details.
Addresses
Postal: NZERN, PO Box 9000, Christchurch, New Zealand
Email: office@bush.org.nz
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Next Kereru, Monday, 2 September 2002
Regards
Mike Peters
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
A big thank you to the folks at Converge (www.converge.org.nz) and Plain
Communications (www.plain.co.nz) for providing the list server for kereru,
and also to the following organisations and sites for web site hosting:
Landcare Research (www.Landcare.cri.nz); Converge; Enviroweb; freecfm.com.
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