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Archive for August, 2007

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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

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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 [...]

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found this floating around the nets .. please don’t do this at home , …. with a real kiwi , fruit is ok

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 booming and the Sanctuary is [...]

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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 [...]

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  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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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