Kereru is a weekly NZ e-mail for all community participants and organisations about ecological restoration. Relevant notices are very welcome, please logon to Pipi to add your information. Help bring back our natives.
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Monday, 28 March 2003
Welcome to Kereru.
CONTENTS
2. Calendar
3. Noticeboard
4. Resources
7. NZERN News
8. How to contact NZERN
2. CALENDAR
This 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.
and next week...
Monday 5
Canterbury
Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutahi Trust Meeting
Education & Publicity Working Group. 7 to 8.30pm
Tanya Jenkins Phone 9804800
Monday 5
Wellington
Pauatahanui Wetlands Reserve
1st & 3rd Monday
Work party 9am.
Ron Freeston, (04) 589-9232
Tuesday 6
Wellington
Greendale Working Party
Tuesdays
8.30am at reserve for planting and release work.
Phil Palmer 04-298-2952
Tuesday 6
Otago
STOP, Save the Otago Peninsula meeting
First Tuesday of every month
Broad Bay Plunket rooms 7.30pm.
Helen Clarke (03) 478 0311
Wednesday 7
Canterbury
Addington Bush Society AGM
Normally 1st Wed in May
All welcome.
8pm at 7 Poulson St, Addington. Followed by supper.
Euan Hefford (03) 338-7646
Wednesday 7
Wellington
Wellington Home Nursery
1st & 3rd Wednesday
7.30-9.30pm
Contact Julia 938-5102
Thursday 8
Canterbury
Forest & Bird (North Canterbury) Meeting
WEA 59 Gloucester St 7.30pm
"A marine Park for fiordland". Speaker Sue Maturin.
Thursday 8
Canterbury
Guardians of the Styx River (Christchurch)
2rd Thursday except December, January General Meeting
Meet 7.30pm Papanui Service Centre. Admission free.
Contacts John Knox (Chair) (03) 379 9904 Matthew Turnbull (Secretary) (03) 332 7290
Thursday 8
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 8
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 8
Wellington
Wellington Home Nursery
2nd & 4th Thursday
7-9pm. Meet at Merrins house.
Ph 971-1770
Friday 9
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 10
Auckland
Kauri Grove Reserve and Three Streams Arboretum Working Party
Every Weekend
Walkway construction and revegetation in Albany
John Hogan (09) 415-9336
Saturday 10
Nelson - Marlborough
Wakefield Bush Restoration Society
2nd Saturday
10am -12 noon
Helen Campbell ph/fax (03) 541-9410 maccam@ts.co.nz
Sunday 11
Canterbury
Forest & Bird (North Canterbury) Trip
Ellangowan Scenic Reserve, Banks Peninsula. Contact Euganie Sage 366-6317
Sunday 11
Bay of Plenty
Forest & Bird (Rotorua) Trip
Te Ngae Kahikatea Forest Trip. Rod Stace 07 3628523
Sunday 11
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
363. from Annabel Riley of Wellington...
Wellington Restoration Day 2003 Saturday 3rd May
The foresight and commitment to a long-term vision for Otari-Wilton’s Bush is seen as an inspiration to what can be achieved by a combined effort from volunteers and agencies.
This inspiration is the focus of this year’s Restoration Day, being held at Otari-Wilton’s Bush on May 3. The day is organised by the Department of Conservation, Greater Wellington and the Wellington City Council.
Colin Meurk from Travis Wetland Trust will speak about the restoration of the largest freshwater wetland remnant on the Canterbury Plains, once known as Travis Swamp. Drained and filled for farming and housing, it was choked with willow, gorse, broom, lupin and blackberry when the trust was formed in 1992 to promote its restoration and protection. The theme of Colin’s talk will be ‘Planning for Big Picture Restoration – why do we need it’.
Displays and talks will also highlight work of ecological restoration groups in the Wellington Region, raise awareness with the public and encourage others to get involved.
DOC Poneke area community relations officer Annabel Riley said the Restoration Day is a chance for community groups and agencies to get together to share skills and experiences. “It is also a chance to celebrate the work that many people are quietly achieving to preserve and enhance some Wellington’s unique habitats’.
The day is promoted by the New Zealand Ecological Restoration Network (NZERN). NZERN is a volunteer run national network of community groups, councils, schools, farmers and government agencies involved in hands on projects restoring areas of New Zealand’s special biodiversity. People wishing to attend this year’s event can book with the Department of Conservation’s Wellington Conservancy by Friday 18 April 2003, either by phone, (04) 472 5821; fax (04) 499 0077 or email: kmitchell@doc.govt.nz
4. RESOURCES
The Birdland Trust
The Far Norths own habitat protection organisation. Restoration project at Sweet Water Dune Lakes at 90 Mile Beach.
http://www.converge.org.nz/birdland/index.html
The Coromandel Pohutukawa Festival
http://www.dreamland.co.nz/pohutukawafest/pohutukawa.html
The New Zealand Hemiptera Web Site
http://www.landcare.cri.nz/science/biodiversity/arthropods/hemwsite/contents.htm
The New Zealand Plant Protection Society
http://www.hortnet.co.nz/publications/nzpps/
The Papatowai Forest Heritage Trust
http://www.catlins-ecotours.co.nz/pfht.htm
The Press
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/thepress/
The Wildlife Society
USA based organisation
http://www.tws-west.org/restoration
Three Streams
http://www.threestreams.org.nz/
Tiritiri Matangi
http://www.bigjude.com/tiri.html
Torepatutahi Landcare Group
http://www.ew.govt.nz/educationprogrammes/farmersandlandcare/caregroups/torepatutahi.htm
Tree of Life
http://tolweb.org/tree/phylogeny.html
More resources at http://www.bush.org.nz/resource/
7. NZERN News
27/04/2003
Pipi Update
A basic weed reporting tool has been added to Pipi.
Similar to the bird list tool, it enables any group or family with an area of land to start to record the weeds that they find. This then automatically creates a web page listing the weeds. Each weed will eventually have a link to a page of information on control methods that work!
The weed reporting tool is now available as part of the Site Manager for your group found when you log on to Pipi. Each group needs to sort out who can use this.
27/04/2003
User Forum
The new web-based forums on the www.bush.org.nz website are starting to be used.
They are a great place to ask questions, report on succesful events, publicly thank people, get more volunteers, put the word out for equipment etc.
The weeds forum is a great one to use. If you have a weed and you are not sure how to control it - use that forum to get some answers from the experts "Weed Busters".
http://www.bush.org.nz/forum/
To "post a message" to a forum, you need to log on to Pipi with your user name and password which is sent out to you each month.
You will find the forums under "My Office" and then go to "My Forum". Remember you have to join a forum first before you can "post a message"
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.
* http://www.bush.org.nz/support/ – go here to learn how to use Pipi to get your message across.
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, 5 May 2003
Regards
Mike Peters
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
A big thank you to Landcare Research for web site hosting: Landcare Research (www.Landcare.cri.nz);
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