Posted in Inspiration, botanical, bush, climate change, conservation, ecological, environment, global warming, honda, life, nature, new zealand, nz, sustainability, tree fund, trees, wellington, wildernesses, wildlife, world on August 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Greater Wellington – Mauriceville community planting day
Mauriceville village will be further enhanced next month with the planting of native trees and shrubs during a HondaTree Fund Community Planting Day. The HondaTree Fund has provided the funding to purchase 300 trees and shrubs for this year’s event along with mulch and fertiliser.
The event has been organised [...]
Posted in Hector's, Maui's, South Island Hector's, conservation, ecological, environment, forest and bird, nature, new zealand, nz, sustainability, wildlife, world on August 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Forest and Bird Media Release
The Threat Management Plan issued today to protect Hector’s and Maui’s dolphins is a good start, but must go further, Forest & Bird says.
Forest & Bird Conservation Advocate Kirstie Knowles says that the Government plan’s proposals to establish five marine mammal sanctuaries and introduce a ban on set nets wherever the [...]
Posted in Auckland, Wetlands, conservation, environment, new zealand, sustainability, wetland, wildlife on August 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Auckland City Council has purchased land in Onehunga containing a unique volcanic crater as part of its ongoing efforts to protect and enhance the city’s volcanic landscape.
The council intends that the two properties in Onehunga at 36 Grotto Street and 29 Heretaunga Avenue become a public reserve.
more
Posted in conservation, environment, gecko, island, lizard, nature, new zealand, nz, skink, sustainability, tuatara, wildlife on August 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Island home planned for lizard species and rescue bid for seagrass – 20 Aug 2007 – Pollution news – NZ Herald
Eight species of lizards are to be relocated to a local island as part of a plan designed to improve the health of Whangarei Harbour.
The plan, funded by Marsden Pt port owner Northport Ltd through [...]
Posted in Inspiration, bird, birds, kiwi, new zealand, nz, upper hutt, world on August 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
found this floating around the nets ..
please don’t do this at home , …. with a real kiwi , fruit is ok
Posted in Wetlands, botanical, bush, conservation, doc, environment, life, new zealand, sustainability, trees, wellington, wetland on August 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Greater Wellington – Rural living field day
20 August 2007
Greater Wellington Regional Council, AgResearch and Wellington City Council are hosting a rural living field day in Ohariu Valley for anyone interested in developing their rural lifestyle block.
Learn about landscape design, including what to plant, where and why and you can also take home a free native [...]
Posted in Albatross, Falcon, North Island robin, Rifleman, Saddleback, Shining Cuckoo, Silvereye, bat, bellbird, bird, birds, conservation, environment, fantail, godwit, grey warbler, hawk, huia, kaka, kereru, kiwi, morepork, nature, new zealand, stitchbird, sustainability, takahe, weka, yellowhead on August 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Scoop: OSNZ publishes significant scientific resource
Scientific knowledge about New Zealand birdlife took a great leap forward today as the Ornithological Society of New Zealand published the Atlas of Bird Distribution in New Zealand 1999-2004.
The atlas was launched today at Government House in Wellington by the Administrator of the Government, Rt. Hon. Dame Sian Elias. [...]
Posted in Matiu/Somes Island, North Island robin, bird, birds, conservation, doc, environment, karori sanctuary, nature, new zealand, nz, sustainability, wellington, wildernesses, wildlife on August 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Scoop: Robins the first birds to be transferred
Outward bound: North Island robins the first birds to be transferred out of Karori Sanctuary
Until now wildlife has arrived at Karori Sanctuary on a one-way ticket. But seven years after the first birds were released at the Sanctuary, bird numbers are [...]
Posted in environment, new zealand, sustainability, tuatara, wellington, wildlife on August 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
News | Victoria University of Wellington
It’s official—tuatara are breeding on Matiu/Somes Island in Wellington Harbour.
Proof comes in the form of a tiny baby tuatara which emerged last
week from an egg found on the island. It’s the first known offspring of
54 Brothers Island tuatara transferred to the island nine years ago.
And
there may even be a sibling [...]
Posted in Tongariro, bellbird, birds, bush, climate change, conservation, ecological, environment, kereru, kiwi, maori, matai, new zealand, rimu, sustainability, trees, wildernesses, wildlife on August 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Scientific research being carried out in the Ngāi Tūhoe forests in
the central North Island is delivering valuable knowledge about
indigenous forest ecosystems and giving Maori landowners tools to
restore and preserve their native forest resource.
Over the past four years, Landcare Research scientists have been
working with the Tuawhenua Trust, to investigate why some canopy tree
species in the [...]
Posted in Wetlands, conservation, doc, environment, forest and bird, new zealand, river, sustainability, upper hutt, wellington, wildlife on August 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Greater Wellington – A fish ladder for Hull’s Creek
Giant Kokopu (Galaxias argenteus) Photograph by R.M. McDowall
inanga (Galaxias maculatus)
The Silverstream care group is a busy one. For over five years now it’s been working hard to restore the stream, create a native bird corridor, reduce erosion and create a walkway linking Silverstream to the Hutt [...]
Posted in conservation, doc, ecological, environment, life, nature, new zealand, nz, sustainability, wellington, wildernesses, wildlife on August 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Create another world in your own back yard: media releases
Greater Wellington residents are offered help to transform their back yards into havens for native wildlife during Conservation Week (August 6 – 12).
They’ll receive a free native plant for their garden in exchange for a weed at a weed swap at The NewDowse, 45 Laings Road, [...]
Posted in new zealand on August 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Greater Wellington – Akatarawa Forest winter possum control
Greater Wellington Regional Council is carrying out a large-scale aerial possum control operation using 1080 poison in the Akatarawa Forest from late July, weather permitting. The operation is expected to be complete by the end of August.
Greater Wellington’s Landcare Committee Chair, Councillor Chris Laidlaw says that the operation [...]
Posted in Photography, Tongariro, Wetlands, botanical, bush, conifers, conservation, ecological, environment, fungi, life, mushroom, new zealand, nz, travel, trees, wetland, wildernesses, wildlife on August 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Eagle’s Complete Trees and Shrubs of New
Zealand, a book that took author and painter, Audrey Eagle
more than 50 years to complete, is the winner of the 2007
Montana Medal for non fiction.
The two-volume work
contains more than 800 hand painted plates; images of every
single New Zealand tree and shrub, some of which are now
extinct. [...]
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