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, 3rd March 2008 Welcome to Kereru. CONTENTS
1. News for NZERN members
2. Restoration Calendar
3. How to contact NZERN
1. NEWS FOR NZERN MEMBERS
95% of the 25,000 pages on www.bush.org.nz website are going to be consolidated, so that there will only be a single page for each topic. This proposal borrows many ideas from Wikipedia to simplify searching and would enable direct editing of all pages by all members. To minimise disruption, a lot of planning and design work needs to be done before hand. The 10,000 new pages will then be automatically created over a two week period. Once they have been randomly checked, there will be a change-over-date around the end of March. Members are invited to attend a series of workshops to make the necessary decisions about what kinds of information should be on the new pages. Draft designs are available to look at. These workshops will be the only opportunity to have a say in these changes. Phone Mike Peters 03-980-0902 for more information. A phone conference will be available to include those who can't attend in person.
Restoration Directory Workshop
5.30pm, 5 March in Christchurch to improve the pages about:
Restoration groups
Restoration group constitutions
Agencies
Funders
Suppliers of goods and services
Community native plant nurseries
Commercial native plant nurseries
Biographies of people
Restoration sites
Restoration site management plans
Restoration Toolbox Workshop
9am-4pm, 9 March in Christchurch to improve the pages about:
Native plant species
Native bird species
Weeds
Pests
Ecosystems
Soils
Ecological Districts
Ecological Regions
Biodiversity technical terms
Planterguide planting lists
An Events Calendar workshop is planned for early March in Christchurch to improve the pages about
Regular Events
Conferences
Field Days more information is avaiable at
http://www.project.bush.org.nz/species/index.html
http://www.project.bush.org.nz/restorationdirectory/index.html
http://www.project.bush.org.nz/whatson/index.html An test example of a redesigned page on www.bush.org.nz
http://www.project.bush.org.nz/restorationdirectory/sample/RestorationGroup.html An example of a wikipedia page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korea
03/03/2008
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, 10th March 2008 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Kereru is published by Bush Telly for the New Zealand Ecological Restoration Network Inc.
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