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, 31 March 2003
Welcome to Kereru.
CONTENTS
2. Calendar
3. Noticeboard
4. Resources
7. NZERN News
8. How to contact NZERN
2. CALENDAR
This week...
Tuesday 1
Wellington
Greendale Working Party
Tuesdays
8.30am at reserve for planting and release work.
Phil Palmer 04-298-2952
Tuesday 1
Otago
STOP, Save the Otago Peninsula meeting
First Tuesday of every month
Broad Bay Plunket rooms 7.30pm.
Helen Clarke (03) 478 0311
Wednesday 2
Canterbury
Weed Ecology Workshop
Wednesday
Canterbury Agriculture and Science Centre, Lincoln
Lynley Hayes 03 325 6701 ext. 3808
Wednesday 2
Wellington
Wellington Home Nursery
Wednesday
Nursery potting up and seed propagation. Evening session 7.30pm till 9.30pm
Gary James (04) 938-6751
Thursday 3
Wellington
Forest & Bird (Lower Hutt) Branch Meeting
1st Thursday 7.30pm. Tramping Club Hall, Birch St, Lower Hutt.
Thursday 3
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 4
Canterbury
Canterbury Botanical Society Meeting
1st Friday
7.30pm Room 5A, Canterbury University.
Friday 4
Southland
QEII National Trust/NZERN
Field Day looking at Pest Plant problems and solutions. Venue - Southland Community Nursery and Rance Covenant, 185 Grant Road, Otatara Contact Gay Munro (2395827 email 4igmunro@thenet.net.nz )
1pm - 4pm
Saturday 5
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 5
Auckland
Kauri Grove Reserve and Three Streams Arboretum Working Party
Every Weekend
Walkway construction and revegetation in Albany
John Hogan (09) 415-9336
Saturday 5
Wellington
Wellington Botanical Society Field Trip
1st Saturday
Field trip Eastern Hutt Hills.
Sunday 6
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 6
Northland
Forest & Bird Far North
New members welcome.
Arethusa Working Bee, Mary Horsford, 09 409 4829
Sunday 6
Bay of Plenty
Rotorua Botanical Society Field trip
Mamaku Plateau Forest and Wetland. Willie Shaw and Sarah Beadel. Contact Chris Ecroyd 07 3479067
Sunday 6
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 7
Wellington
Pauatahanui Wetlands Reserve
1st & 3rd Monday
Work party 9am.
Ron Freeston, (04) 589-9232
Tuesday 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)
Tuesday 8
Wellington
Greendale Working Party
Tuesdays
8.30am at reserve for planting and release work.
Phil Palmer 04-298-2952
Tuesday 8
New Zealand
NZERN Monthly Committee Meeting
Second Tuesday (except January)
7.15pm. National Secretary Simon Johnson ph: (03) 355-8150 E-mail: simonj-hrs@clear.net.nz
Wednesday 9
Wellington
Wellington Home Nursery
Wednesday
Nursery potting up and seed propagation. Evening session 7.30pm till 9.30pm
Gary James (04) 938-6751
Thursday 10
Canterbury
Guardians of the Styx River (Christchurch)
2rd Thursday except December, January General Meeting
Meet 7.30pm Papanui Service Centre. Admission free.
A discussion on the role and objectives of NZ Landcare Trust, examples of work being done by the Trust. The Styx Project and how we may work together. Speaker: Shelley Washington, Central South Island Regional Co-ordinator of the NZ Landcare Trust.
Contacts John Knox (Chair) (03) 379 9904 Matthew Turnbull (Secretary) (03) 332 7290
Thursday 10
Canterbury
Mt Vernon Working Party
Thursdays.
1.30 - 4pm. Port Hills Park Trust Board.
Anne Kennedy (03) 337 0364, Dave Bates (03) 332 6233
Thursday 10
Southland
Southland Ornithogical Society Evening Meetings
2nd Thursday
(In conjunction with Field Club) Otatara Community Centre, Dunns Rd, Otatara. 7.30pm.
Phil Rhodes (03) 217 2757 or Lloyd Esler (03) 213-0404
Thursday 10
Waikato
Waikato Forest & Bird Meeting
Chartwell Rooms, Hamilton Gardens, Cobham Drive , Hamilton.
7.30pm AGM & 7.40pm Talk— Kakapo Recovery. Don Merton. 6.30 Meal. Donation. $10 - Book with Colleen Brimblecombe 07 855 5626 or Philip Hart 07 856 7992 prhart@waikato.ac.nz Everyone is welcome. Stay for supper too.
Friday 11
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 12
Southland
Forest & Bird (Southland) Trip
All trips are free, a donation to cover car pooling is appreciated. Trips leave from Southland Museum, Invercargill unless otherwise stated.
Manapouri explored. Help out at the Home Creek Restoration Wetland with Edith Jones then boat trip on Lake Manapouri. Book with Ruth Dalley (03 2496664) Leave Southland Museum 9.a.m.
Saturday 12
Auckland
Kauri Grove Reserve and Three Streams Arboretum Working Party
Every Weekend
Walkway construction and revegetation in Albany
John Hogan (09) 415-9336
Saturday 12
Nelson - Marlborough
Wakefield Bush Restoration Society
2nd Saturday
10am -12 noon
Helen Campbell ph/fax (03) 541-9410 maccam@ts.co.nz
Sunday 13
New Zealand
Bush Telly Crew on location
Motukarara Nursery
Sunday 13
Canterbury
Canterbury Conservation Day - Motukarara Nursery
Motukarara Conservation Nursery, Waihora Domain off SH 75, on the way to Akaroa. Come along for an informative and fun day. There will be workshops; activites, native plant sales, displays, foodstalls. There will be free entrance and parking, eftpos available.
10am-4pm "Down by the Sea". Canterbury Coastline: guest speakers and workshops will cover subjects such as marine mammals and seabirds, coastal forest protection and enhancement, tsunami and sand dune rehabilitation.
phone 03 329-7846 jsantos@doc.govt.nz
Sunday 13
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 13
Auckland
Friends of Motuihe Working Bee
2nd Sunday
Travel Fullers from Auckland at 10am $15. Meet Volunteer Hut. Bring own lunch & water, good shoes, gloves, secatures
info@motuihe.org.nz
(more calendar items at http://www.bush.org.nz/calendar/
3. NOTICEBOARD
360. from David Blair of Otago...
Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust Work Days (Planting in habitats) Forward Notice.
Planting days:
Tavora Sunday June 8
Otago Penninsula Sunday July 27 & August 3.
More details later.
Queries contact David Blair yept@clear.net.nz
4. RESOURCES
Chatham Island Taiko Trust
information about Taiko or Magenta Petrel (Pterodroma magentae)
www.taiko.org.nz
Bird Families of the World
www.es.cornell.edu/winkler/botw/Main.html
Birdlife International
International organisation. National agreements. Building network and strengthen partnerships. Practical tool for conservationists. Objectively and scientificly defined.
www.birdlife.net
Birdnet
Bird accounts
www.nmnh.si.edu/BIRDNET/ORDERS/BIRDACCOUNTS.html
Birds Australia
Birds Australia began life as the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (RAOU) in 1901. BA is dedicated to the conservation, study and enjoyment of Australia's native birds and their habitats.
www.birdsaustralia.com.au
Ecology birdsite
www.rem.sfu.ca/gis/projects/eh/nzbirds/index.htm
NZ Ornithological Soc
Ornithological Society of New Zealand
www.osnz.org.nz
NZ Penguins
NZ Penguins
www.penguin.net.nz
Pacific Birds
www.pacificbirds.com
Yellow-Eyed Penguin Trust
www.converge.org.nz/hoiho/index.html
More resources at http://www.bush.org.nz/resource/
7. NZERN News
31/03/2003
Restoration Directory
The 2003 Southland Restoration Directory is being printed this week in time for the comming field day this Friday.
The 2003 Canterbury Restoration Directory will be printed and available at the Canterbury Conservation Day events on April 13 at Motukarara Nursery.
The 2003 Wellington Restoration Directory will be printed and distributed at the Wellington Restoration Day, May 3 at Otari Wilton's.
Revision forms are included. Copies of these directories will also be posted out.
Other regional editions are due out later this year.
31/03/2003
Website
Traffic on the website continues to grow steeply. 180,000 hits for March.
A TV program "Australian Gardening", which runs on TV1 in the mornings, recently had the website on for 2 minutes, showing PlanterGuide as being an "easy tool to find out to what natives to plant". The presenter commented that a tool like PlanterGuide was needed for Australia.
31/03/2003
Regional Rep
There are vacancies for Regional Reps in the Wellington area.
Kapiti
Wellington
Wairarapa-Masterton
Horowhenua-Manawatu
The job involves being on the local committee for the area to help run useful resources that all the projects can use.
If you are interested, or want to nominate someone - please contact the office.
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.
* 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
Email: office@bush.org.nz
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Next Kereru, Monday, 6 April 2003
Regards
Mike Peters
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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