Events

The Native Plant Nursery in Highbury, Wellington has work sessions every other weekend on alternate Saturday and Sunday aftenoon starting at 1:30pm and every Tuesday morning starting at 9:00am.

All are welcome to join our monthly working bees looking after Paremata Flat Reserve Restoration Project – usually first or second Sunday of the month (except January), 9am-12midday.

Join Forest & Bird's Canterbury West Coast Regional Conservation Manager Nicky Snoyink to hear what's on Forest & Bird's agenda for 2026.

The speaker at our February meeting will be Leah Foster who looks after the rehabilitation of native birds at Natureland. 

Find out more about the conservation work at Natureland here: https://natureland.nz/conservation.

All are welcome to join our monthly working bees caring for Pearl Creek – second Saturday of the month (except January), 9am-12midday.

Meet at the end of Cotterell Road, Appleby. A peaceful place to work removing weeds brought in by birds.

Ruary Mackenzie Dodds and his wife Kari de Koenigswarter are rated as Dragonfly Ambassadors by the British Dragonfly Society.

Monitoring, Citizen Science and finding what information is out there

Please meet at the corner of Colenso St and Wakefield Ave in Sumner at 9am to register with  Helen Hills. 

Join us for a guided walk over Mātai Moana / Watts Peninsula (North end of Miramar Peninsula). This guided walk will celebrate the Government announcement (September 2025), that the 72 hectare area is now a Public Reserve and DOC land.

Please meet at the corner of Colenso St and Wakefield Ave in Sumner at 9am to register with  Helen Hills. 

We meet at 9am on the corner of Wakefield Avenue and Colenso St (Sumner) to register and carpool up to the site, beside Evans Pass Rd, to meet the ranger at 9.15 am. 

We meet at 9am on the corner of Wakefield Avenue and Colenso St (Sumner) to register and carpool up to the site, beside Evans Pass Rd, to meet the ranger at 9.15 am.