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 Sunday of the month (except January), 9am-12midday.

Our AGM and June winter talk will be held on Thursday - 5th June, starting at 7.00pm in the Southgate Room, The Oaks (upstairs of Warkworth Hotel), Warkworth. 

The speakers for our June meeting will be Robin and Sandy Toy, from the Friends of Flora programme for the reintroduction of the roroa - great spotted kiwi.

For more information about this project, see: https://www.fof.org.nz/roroare.html .

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.

Put this date in your calendar. As well as planting there will be a morning tea and sausage sizzle put on by Ecan afterwards. Details of exact time and place to follow.

Join us on Sunday 15 June for a day of interesting local speakers (from Project Reef South Taranaki and Kiwis Against Seabed Mining to talk about the Taranaki Bight, along with speakers from Wairua Conservation and Horizons Regional Council&nb

Recently retired Northern Wildlife Manager for the Auckland and Waikato Fish & Game Council John Dyer will talk about his experiences and management of waterfowl over the past decades.

Forest & Bird’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) for 2025 will be held online on Saturday 28 June at 9am.
 

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.

The speaker at our July meeting will be Nigel Skeggs, talking about the successful management of Nelson Marina.

For more about Nelson Marina: https://www.nelsonmarina.co.nz/ 

Put this date in your calendar. As well as planting there will be a morning tea and sausage sizzle put on by ECan afterwards. Details of exact time and place to follow.