Past events

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.

Philip Summerhays, Research Associate Auckland Museum, will not just be talking about mayflies, he will also bring along some mayflies he has been breeding, nymphs in a bucket and adults in a container.

The Para Wetland restoration project is managed and led by Fish and Game NZ.  The New Zealand Gamebird Habitat Trust is a major sponsor and considers it one of their flagship wetland projects.

An event organised by Forest & Bird and Junior Landcare, (a national initiative by NZ Landcare Trust and supported by the Bupa Foundation)

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.

The New Zealand Archipelago stretches 2750 kilometres from the sub-tropical Kermadec Islands to the subantarctic Campbell Island group with over 700 islands including the planet's 16th and 18th largest landmasses.

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