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, 23 March 2004
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Events on this week include
Canterbury
Sunday 29th
Otamahua/Quail Restoration Trust Work Day
Normally Last Sunday
Ferry departs Lyttelton B Jetty 9.30am. Return 1.40 & 4.40pm. Bring lunch, drink, work shoes.
Contact Alison 328-8350 Auckland
Mutukaroa [Hamlins Hill] Park Care
Last Sunday each month 1.30 pm
Meet at the main entrance Great South Road [40 metres north from Sylvia Park Rd] Mt Wellington, Auckland.During 2004 main tasks include pruning; releasing [weeding]; in fill native planting; under story planting; maintaining tracks and being involved with the future of this 48ha Park. * Please register so that training, tools etc can be arranged. kithowden@xtra.co.nz
Kit Howden 629 4694 or 021 0411667 for more events in February
http://www.members.bush.org.nz/nz/month.cfm?Year=2004&Month=2
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Motukarara Nursery Open Day
This year Canterbury Conservation Day 2004 will be held on Sunday 18 April 2004. The theme is "Grow Canterbury", highlighting the varied benefits of growing appropriate, native Canterbury plants, including their ability to survive droughts and for some species to be low to moderate fire resistant plants. Programme ...
http://www.members.bush.org.nz/article/index.cfm?NavItemID=528&ArticleID=674
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Birdguide is a simple resouce about native birds in New Zealand
http://www.bush.org.nz/birdguide/ Members can create bird lists as in this example for Redwood Bush Reserve http://www.members.bush.org.nz/site/index.cfm?NavItemID=364&SiteID=929
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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, 1st March 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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Kereru is published by the New Zealand Ecological Restoration Network Inc.
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