Kereru is a weekly NZ e-mail for all community participants and organisations about ecological restoration. Relevant notices, events and articles are very welcome, please logon to Pipi to add your information. Help bring back our natives.
Kereru is available at
http://www.bush.org.nz/kereru/
Monday, 16 February 2003
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Trees For Canterbury Move Into New Home
Trees For Canterbury are moving in February to a new location and need help with the move...
http://www.members.bush.org.nz/article/index.cfm?NavItemID=528&ArticleID=671
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TAIERI Waterways Symposium: Sustaining Our Lifestyles, Livelihoods and Living Systems The Taieri River has been in the news a lot recently as water quality and quantity issues challenge us head on. As Taieri waterways provide our drinking, recreation and irrigation needs, sustaining their health is vital to maintaining ...
http://www.members.bush.org.nz/article/index.cfm?NavItemID=528&ArticleID=672
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General Restoration Forum
Hello to everybody at NZERN, I have just discovered this group and web site. Some people have put in a lot of time and effort and expertise to building the site! The planting guide in particular looks fantastic. Do you know the "Plants for a Future" organization in the UK (www.pfaf.org I think)? They have a similar plant database with many New Zealand natives included, lots of features, it may be worth checking out.
I must find out my precise soil type to use the database. I have 4 acres of river terrace in the Manawatu, there is a 20cm layer of top soil over several hundred metres of Tokomaru clay ....
http://www.members.bush.org.nz/forum/messages.cfm?forumId=46&messageId=442&NavItemID=17
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NZERN is currently running a survey toget your feedback on the website. What improvements would you like...
http://www.markettruths.co.nz/surveys/nzern/
-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Restoring Wetlands - a practical forum The National Wetland Trust, in association with Greater Wellington and Action Bio-community, are staging a practical "hands on" forum for people with an interest in wetland management and conservation to be held at Tapu te Ranga Marae on February 27 and 28th 2004. ..... http://www.bush.org.nz/region/wellington.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Work Underway to Upgrade NZERN Website Following workshops held all over NZ in 2003, a crack team of volunteers are hard at work turning the NZERN website into a world class resource for restoration. 1000 hours of highly skilled donated labour will give the site a magazine format, add on-line mapping and make it childs play to use. Visitors will be able to log on in English, Maori, Chinese and other languages to access resources and use tools to help with projects.... http://www.bush.org.nz/pipi/plan.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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, 23 February 2003
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
A big thank you to Landcare Research for web site hosting www.LandcareResearch.co.nz
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