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, 25th February 2008 Welcome to Kereru. CONTENTS
1. News for NZERN members
2. Restoration Calendar
3. How to contact NZERN
1. NEWS FOR NZERN MEMBERS
This is the first Kereru for the year. Publication has been delayed by NZERN moving into additional ofiice and meeting space. Restoration Toolbox Workshop to radically improve the web pages about native plants and birds, weeds, pests, ecosystems and soils will be held 9am-4pm March 9 2008 in Christchurch. Any NZERN member is welcome to attend. Phone Mike Peters 03-980-0902 for more information. A phone conference will be available to include those who can't attend in person. The plan is to consolidate all data, information and knowledge onto a single page for each species, soil type, ecosystem, ecological region or district. This proposal borrows many ideas from Wikipedia to simplify searching and would enable direct editing of all pages by all members using their password. The meeting needs to list all issues that need to be solved, figure out the solutions, redesign the web pages and come up with an action plan to be carried out as by the end of March. more information is avaiable at
http://www.project.bush.org.nz/species/index.html
http://www.project.bush.org.nz/species/workshop.html An test example of a redesigned page on www.bush.org.nz
http://www.project.bush.org.nz/species/sample/Species2.html An example of a wikipedia page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korea
25/02/2008
NZERN Help Desk
2. RESTORATION CALENDAR
The calendar of events will return next week
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!
* http://www.bush.org.nz/forum/ - forums
* http://www.bush.org.nz/onair/ internet radio
* http://www.help.bush.org.nz - how the members only website works
* http://www.testcentre.bush.org.nz - improvements to the website How to contact NZERN
http://www.bush.org.nz/nzern/contact.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Next Kereru, Monday, 3rd March 2008 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Kereru is published by Bush Telly for the New Zealand Ecological Restoration Network Inc. |
