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, 21 April 2003
Welcome to Kereru.
CONTENTS
2. Calendar
3. Noticeboard
4. Resources
7. NZERN News
8. How to contact NZERN
2. CALENDAR
This week...
Monday 21
Wellington
Pauatahanui Wetlands Reserve
1st & 3rd Monday
Work party 9am.
Ron Freeston, (04) 589-9232
Tuesday 22
Wellington
Greendale Working Party
Tuesdays
8.30am at reserve for planting and release work.
Phil Palmer 04-298-2952
Tuesday 22
Canterbury
Travis Wetland Trust Meeting
Tuesday after Third Saturday.
Time: 5.30pm - 7.30pm. Place: Travis Wetland Education Centre, Beach Road.
Helen Braithwaite (03) 328 9958
Wednesday 23
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
Thursday 24
Auckland
Friends of the Whau - Meeting
Last Thursday
7.30pm staff room Kelston Boys High School, Kelston. Visitors Welcome
J. Weaver (09) 820-8575
Thursday 24
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 24
Wellington
Wellington Home Nursery
2nd & 4th Thursday
7-9pm. Meet at Merrins house.
Ph 971-1770
Friday 25
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 25
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 26
Auckland
Kauri Grove Reserve and Three Streams Arboretum Working Party
Every Weekend
Walkway construction and revegetation in Albany
John Hogan (09) 415-9336
Saturday 26
Wellington
Pauatahanui Wetlands Reserve Lower Hutt Forest & Bird
4th Saturday
Work party 9am.
Ron Freeston (04) 589-9232
Sunday 27
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 27
Canterbury
Forest & Bird (North Canterbury) Trip
The Monument Reserve, Port Hills. Contact Lois Griffiths 342-9800
Sunday 27
Otago
MEES working Party
Last Sunday of Month.
Meet 10.30am at Long Beach
Colin Rutherford (03) 482-1110
Sunday 27
Wellington
Otari Wilton's Bush Trust - Walk
2pm. $3, meet at the Otari-Wilton's bush Information Centre, Te Marae o Tane.
Blue trail treats
04 499 1400
Sunday 27
Canterbury
Summit Rd Society Outings
4th Sunday
Visits to the Port Hills. 1pm - 4pm. $2 charge per head members, $5 non members, children free.
To register or enquries Carol (03) 385-2840 or email Carol.H@xtra.co.nz
and next week...
Monday 28
Canterbury
YMCA Conservation Corps at Addington Bush
Clearing land for planting.
Jeff Johnson
Tuesday 29
Canterbury
Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutahi Trust Meeting
Research & Monitoring Working Group. 7 to 8.30pm
Tanya Jenkins Phone 9804800
Tuesday 29
New Zealand
Earth Day
April 29 of every year
International event.
Tuesday 29
Wellington
Greendale Working Party
Tuesdays
8.30am at reserve for planting and release work.
Phil Palmer 04-298-2952
Wednesday 30
Wellington
Kapiti Forest & Bird Monthly Meeting
Last Wednesday except December and January
David Gregorie 04-904-2183
Thursday 1
Wellington
Forest & Bird (Lower Hutt) Branch Meeting
1st Thursday 7.30pm. Tramping Club Hall, Birch St, Lower Hutt.
Thursday 1
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 2
Canterbury
Canterbury Botanical Society Meeting
1st Friday
7.30pm Room 5A, Canterbury University.
Friday 2
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 3
New Zealand
Bush Telly Crew on location
Otari Plant Museum
Saturday 3
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 3
Auckland
Kauri Grove Reserve and Three Streams Arboretum Working Party
Every Weekend
Walkway construction and revegetation in Albany
John Hogan (09) 415-9336
Saturday 3
Canterbury
Otamahua/Quail Restoration Trust Work Day
Normally Last Sunday
Ferry departs Lyttelton B Jetty 9.30am. return 12.40 or 3.40pm. Bring lunch and drink.
Note This is saturday
Alison 328-8350
Saturday 3
Wellington
Restoration day - a celebration of restoration in the Wellington Region
A chance to share skills, experience and catch up with what is happening in Wellington.
Otari Wilton's Bush. To register contact DoC. Annabel Riley 472-5821. Email ariley@doc.govt.nz
Sunday 4
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 4
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)
Sunday 4
Wellington
Wellington Botanical Society Field Trip
1st Saturday
Field trip Kaukau Skyline Walkway & Bledisloe Creek/Otari.
(more calendar items at http://www.bush.org.nz/calendar/
3. NOTICEBOARD
360. from Steve Bush of Canterbury...
Trees for Canterbury Trivia Nite 26 May.
Trees for Canterbury will be holding a Trivia Nite on the 26th of May at the Captains Mis-Steak Restaurant in Hillsborough. Tickets are $25 per team (max 4 people per team). It will be a great night with a few laughs, lots of prizes and of course plenty of Trivia. Numbers are strictly limited so be in quick. Starts at 7pm with the first question at 7.30 sharp.
Call 9821028 for more info.
(more notices at http://www.bush.org.nz/notice/
4. RESOURCES
Kaipatatiki Ecological Restoration Project
Restoration project in Auckland.
www.kaipatiki.org.nz
kaitiaki Mäori
An on-line community web site for kaitiaki Mäori, containing resources for those involved in environment, resource and heritage management. Greg Ford greg@reddfish.co.nz ReddFish intergalactic Te Whanganui-a-tara, Aotearoa +64-4-384-5825
www.kaitiaki.org.nz/
Kaituna Lakecare Group
www.ew.govt.nz/educationprogrammes/farmersandlandcare/caregroups/kaituna.htm
Kakapo Recovery
Website devoted to the endangered native parrot, the kakapo. Developed jointly by recovery program sponsor Comalco, Forest and Bird, and the Department of Conservation.
www.kakaporecovery.org.nz
More resources at http://www.bush.org.nz/resource/
7. NZERN News
18/04/2003
User Forum
More forums are now available to be used
Planterguide (public)
Growing native plants (public)
NZERN National Council (private)
Support forum (public)
http://www.bush.org.nz/forum/
Anyone can visit the public forums and look at the questions and answers.
Some of the forums are private and so can only be seen by the members of those forums
To join a forum you need to log on with your username and password and look for "My Forums" in the "My Office" menu. Then select "join another forum" - and then click on the forum you want. You can now use that forum.
http://www.bush.org.nz/forum/
18/04/2003
Restoration Directory
The Wellington Restoration Directory is currently being edited and will be available at the Wellington Restoration Day on May 3 at Otari Wilton's Bush.
This will be a draft edition for people to take away and post back corrections.
Two months later an official 2003 edition of at least 400 copies will be posted out to libraries, schools, community groups, iwi, native plant nurseries and agencies in the wider Wellington area.
You can help fill in the details or see that the directory is widely distributed. A discussion about the Wellington Directory can be found online at the Wellington Restoration Forum
http://www.members.bush.org.nz/forum/threads.cfm?ForumID=43&NavItemID=594
Log on to Pipi and join the Wellington Restoration Forum to help track down missing details.
(Its better to use the forum than sending information directly to the NZERN office due to extreme mail overload - we are only able to reply to 20% of mail recieved - the rest has to be deleted.)
http://www.members.bush.org.nz/forum/threads.cfm?ForumID=43&NavItemID=594
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.
* http://www.bush.org.nz/forum/ – a place to share information, get help or help others.
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, 28 April 2003
Regards
Mike Peters
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