Past events

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.

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

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.

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

We start at 9.30 am with registration, followed by a short walk to the planting site where a welcome and a planting demonstration by the Park Rangers will take place.

The speaker for our June meeting is Annette Litherland, the regional coordinator for NZ Landcare Trust for Nelson/Tasman. Her background is in agriculture and she helps support landowners and catchment groups wanting to improve their environment, e

Samantha Fitzgerald: Artificial refugia for lizard conservation and behaviour: investigating traditional designs and a novel camera box on Canterbury farms.

Forest & Bird Wellington Branch are excited that Paul Ward, Founder, and Project Lead of the Capital Kiwi Project and Jeff Hall, Field Services Specialist will update us on their ambitious project to restore a large-scale kiwi population to Wel

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. 

Shane Wright - Senior Lecturer Faculty of Science, Biological Sciences, University of Auckland Shane is a Biogeographer teaching at the University of Auckland who has worked in Oceania for many decades.

The nationally endangered Hutton’s shearwater/Kaikōura tītī (Puffinus huttoni) is the only seabird globally to breed in an alpine environment, with the only two breeding colonies remaining in the Seaward Kaikōura Range in the South Island of New Zealand

The speaker for our May meeting will be noted botanist Shannel Courtney on Ngā Taketake ā Tāne - Cataloguing and Naming Indigenous Plants of Te Tauihu, Top of the South.