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/
Tuesday, 25 February 2003
Welcome to Kereru.
CONTENTS
2.Calendar
8. How to contact NZERN
2. CALENDAR
This week...
Monday 24
Canterbury
Forest & Bird (South Canterbury) Meeting
Salvation Army Hall, Wai-iti Rd, Timaru 7.45pm
John Talbot (03) 614-7433
Tuesday 25
Wellington
Forest & Bird Wellington Meeting
7.30pm. Turnbull House, Bowen St.
Greg Sherley (DOC) - Regaining Paradise (A personal account of Nature Conservation activities in the South Pacific)
Gordon Purdie 4795548
Tuesday 25
Wellington
Greendale Working Party
Tuesdays
8.30am at reserve for planting and release work.
Phil Palmer 04-298-2952
Wednesday 26
Wellington
Kapiti Forest & Bird Monthly Meeting
Last Wednesday except December and January
David Gregorie 04-904-2183
Wednesday 26
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 26
Wellington
Wellington Home Nursery
Wednesday
Nursery potting up and seed propagation. Evening session 7.30pm till 9.30pm
Gary James (04) 938-6751
Friday 28
Southland
KCC (Riverton)
4th Fridays 3-15pm - 4.45pm (children 5 - 12). Non KCC members 50c. South Coast Environment Centre.
Robert Guyton (03) 234 8249
Friday 28
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 1
Canterbury
Farewell to the Eastern Bar Tailed Godwit Bird Ceremony
Early March.
Organised by the Avon-Heathcote Estuary Trust and the CCC Park Rangers South New Brighton spit reserve (far end of Rockinghorse Road) 4pm information by Andrew Crossland and CCC Park Rangers on the life of the Godwits after which guided tours to view the birds commence.
Tanya Jenkins 9804800
Saturday 1
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 1
Auckland
Kauri Grove Reserve and Three Streams Arboretum Working Party
Every Weekend
Walkway construction and revegetation in Albany
John Hogan (09) 415-9336
Saturday 1
Wellington
Wellington Botanical Society Field Trip
1st Saturday
Field trip Eastbourne hills.
Sunday 2
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 2
Manawatu - Wanganui
Forest & Bird Manawatu Trip
Turakina Valley, northwest of Palmerston North. Alan Hawkins 06 323 0583. Meet at PNCC carpark, Church St opp. Post Office, Palmerston North before 9am. Bring walking shoes, lunch, raincoat.
Sunday 2
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 3
Wellington
Pauatahanui Wetlands Reserve
1st & 3rd Monday
Work party 9am.
Ron Freeston, (04) 589-9232
Tuesday 4
Wellington
Greendale Working Party
Tuesdays
8.30am at reserve for planting and release work.
Phil Palmer 04-298-2952
Tuesday 4
Otago
STOP, Save the Otago Peninsula meeting
First Tuesday of every month
Broad Bay Plunket rooms 7.30pm.
Helen Clarke (03) 478 0311
Tuesday 4
Wellington
Waimeha Lagoon Working Party
1st & 3rd Tuesday
Meet at Charles Fleming memorial rock, Eruini St, Waikanae
Wednesday 5
Wellington
Wellington Home Nursery
Wednesday
Nursery potting up and seed propagation. Evening session 7.30pm till 9.30pm
Gary James (04) 938-6751
Thursday 6
Wellington
Lower Hutt Forest & Bird Branch Meeting
1st Thursday 7.30pm. Tramping Club Hall, Birch St, Lower Hutt.
Thursday 6
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 7
Canterbury
Canterbury Botanical Society Meeting
1st Friday
8pm Room 5A, Canterbury University.
Friday 7
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 8
New Zealand
Bush Telly Crew on location
Three Streams
Saturday 8
Manawatu - Wanganui
Forest & Bird Manawatu Monthly Meeting
2nd Tuesday
Guest speaker at monthly meeting. 7.45pm. Meet at the Salvation Army Complex, cnr Church and Princess St, Palmerston North. Supper provided. Sales table. Gold coin to cover hall hire appreciated. Non-members welcome.
Viv Nicholls ph 06 350-9714 (wk)
Saturday 8
Auckland
Kauri Grove Reserve and Three Streams Arboretum Working Party
Every Weekend
Walkway construction and revegetation in Albany
John Hogan (09) 415-9336
Saturday 8
Nelson - Marlborough
Wakefield Bush Restoration Society
2nd Saturday
10am -12 noon
Helen Campbell ph/fax (03) 541-9410 maccam@ts.co.nz
Sunday 9
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 9
New Zealand
Seaweek
9 to 18 March
Seaweek is an annual event celebrated every March since 1992.
more calendar items at http://www.bush.org.nz/calendar/
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.
* http://www.bush.org.nz/plantgrow/ – Useful technical information for growing NZ native plants.
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
E-mail: office@bush.org.nz
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Next Kereru, Monday, 3 March 2003
Regards
Mike Peters
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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