Past events

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.

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.

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. 

Join us for a talk from Will Stovall, Regional Facilitator of the Climate Change Learning Programme, and students

Freshwater fauna in the Styx (Puharakeknui) )River: iconic species under threat

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.