Past events

From a history of enclosure towards a regenerative future

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.

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.

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.

Stephen Marsland is a Professor of Mathematics and Data Science at Victoria University of Wellington.

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)

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.