Past events

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. 

The 2024 - 2025 Ashley/Rakahuri Braided River Bird Nesting Season 

Forest and Bird North Canterbury branch have, for the last few years, joined with other volunteer groups in the “Mother of all clean-ups”, organised by the Avon Heathcote Estuary Ihutai Trust on Mother’s Day weekend.

Join Wellington Forest & Bird for our 2025 AGM and to hear from Prof Stephen Marsland about a fascinating application of mathematics to understand bird song. 

Technoecology: Being ‘bad with technology’ to understand our natural world

Rebecca Rogers – Lecturer, School of Science, Auckland University of Technology

For our April meeting, rather than having one speaker, we will highlight the many amazing projects happening in the region supported by Forest and Bird Nelson Tasman members.

Where to, for New Zealand’s Biodiversity - eradicating predators or managing ecosystems? 

In two science papers published in 2023, John and his co-authors took a fundamental look at how best to achieve New Zealand’s biodiversity goals.

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.

Thursday 20th March, 7.30pm

Waitakere Forest & Bird AGM and Project Updates 

The speaker is Shirley Kerr.