Sunday 12th May

Working Day at Miropiko Reserve,
339 River Rd.
9am. 

Waikato Forest and Bird will be hosting a working day at Miropiko Reserve next Sunday.  Bring gloves, spade, gardening footwear. Morning tea provided. Everyone welcome.

Flaxes and Cabbage Trees available

Waikato Forest and Bird have Phormium cookianum hybrids,  available in various colour combinations, and many red and other various colour cabbage trees, in root trainers. Good healthy plants.
Let me know soon if you are interested, as some advertised on Trademe were bought the same day.

If you are interested please contact Katherine 839 4452 or 021 267 2773. Make an offer for quantities, or pay $2 per plant.
There will be some at the Environment Centre if you want to have a look.

Will Coromandel kauri survive? It’s up to us!

The trustees of Kauri 2000 invite you, your friends and associates to attend a community workshop to discuss ways of protecting Coromandel kauri from kauri dieback disease.

You are personally invited to attend one of these workshops as someone who could help influence local community-based solutions to the challenge of stopping the spread of kauri dieback in Peninsula forests.

There are three locations so you can select whichever is most convenient:

• 1 - 3.30 pm Saturday 18 May - Grahamstown Community Centre, Pollen Street, Thames

• 1 - 3.30 pm Sunday 19 May - Coromandel Area School Hall, Woollams Ave, Coromandel

• 6 – 8.30 pm Sunday 19 May - Whitianga Town Hall, Monk Street, Whitianga

Each meeting will include an update by the Kauri Dieback Team on what is known about kauri dieback disease, and community initiatives in Auckland and Northland. Topics will include:

• Current knowledge about the disease – what do we know, how do we recognise it?
• What are the risk factors for the Coromandel?
• What can we do, what tools and techniques can we use?
• How can our communities help? Locals hold the solution!
• Each of us can make some difference – find out how you and organisations you are associated with can help.

We’d like a really big turnout so please pass this invitation on to anyone else you can think of who would like to be involved. We are particularly keen that representatives of your group attend because we feel your members can play an important role in preventing the spread of this devastating disease.

Hand outs, tea and coffee provided on the day. Entry is free (but gold coin donation to help with costs will be appreciated). 

To help us get a feeling for numbers attending please RSVP to Kauri 2000 by Wednesday 15 May – phone 866 0468 or email info@kauri2000.co.nz .

Kind regards 

Barbara Ritchie
Coordinator
Kauri 2000 Trust

Grab your trolley and come and fill it up at the Forest and Bird native plant sale tomorrow morning at Pak'n'save, Mill St starting at 8am.
Be there early for the choicest choices.
Fantastic prices; this is a wonderful opportunity to get in early for bulk plantings, great range of good value plants, as well as supporting the advocacy work that Forest and Bird is doing on your behalf.
So get your plants and do your weekend shopping in one hit.

See you tomorrow!

Reminder!

The (New) Waikato Show is this Friday to Sunday!

Only $5 admittance, littlies free.

Starts at 10am each day. Open til 6, and 10 on Saturday night for the outside activities.

Come and see us at the The EnviroExpo - there will be live bees, chickens, Hungry Bins, lots of groups, interactive Maui dolphin exhibit, electric bikes, solar panels, etc etc etc.

PLUS on Saturday afternoon 12 - 4pm,  Free Lunch will be there demonstrating that we don't need power companies at all,  with Doing Pennants, so come along, be creative and have fun.

Also .....as an additional activity if that isn't enough, you can skip across Te Aroha St and go visit the GreenSpace as they are having open days - go have a cuppa, wander around their wonderful garden,

This Saturday & Sunday, 27^th & 28^th April

The Greenspace Venue & Garden Tours

Free and open to the public! This open house event is an opportunity to see the green features of our award winning meeting venue. Enjoy a complimentary tea or coffee as you take a tour the permaculture gardens and learn about the building’s eco-renovation. Tours are every half hour from 2pm to 4pm, both days.

Looking forward to seeing you!
From all of us at Groundwork Associates and The Greenspace: Annie, Kim, Jess, Tim, Rick, and Judith.

The Greenspace Venue & Offices
60 Te Aroha St, Hamilton
Phone: +64 7 855 7163
web: www.thegreenspace.co.nz

Postponement: Bot Soc fieldtrip to Karioi this weekend has been postponed due to adverse weather forecast.

This Sunday, 21st April

Community Weeding morning
We are at Humaire Park again this Sunday at 8.30am.
meet Cranwell Place entrance to undertake more Ivy removal.
Thanks again  to those of you that have been supporting this project.

Gerard Kelly
Community Planting Co-ordinator | Parks and Open Spaces
DDI: 07 838 6501 | Mob: 021 286 2066 | Email: gerard.kelly@hcc.govt.nz

Monday 22nd April

Waikato Botanical Society Agm
Catherine Beard - Rangatira Island - an outstanding wildlife sanctuary.

Catherine Beard is the guest speaker at our AGM on Monday. She's recently spent three weeks on a remote island in the Chathams, home to 3 million burrowing seabirds as well as endangered forest birds such as the black robin and Chatham Island snipe. Along with the many Chatham Island endemic fauna, the flora associated with this seabird island habitat is equally rare and beautiful. Come and hear about this amazing part of the world and see some of Catherine's many stunning images along with stories of being a field assistant whose feet are encased in petrel boards all day.

(A brief AGM precedes the talk where you'll catch up with what the Botanical Society has been doing for the last year and plans for 2013-14)

Venue : University of Waikato – S Block. Room S.G.03
Time : 5:30 - 7.30 PMEVERYONE WELCOME!

To put in your diary - Friday 31 May

Our Freshwater Species - Survival and Enhancement

Waikato Raupatu River Trust and the Waikato Biodiversity Forum Invitation

Kia ora and Greetings
You are invited to a hui on Friday 31 May 2013 to be held at Hopuhopu just north of Ngaruawahia.

Purposes of the Day

• Increase knowledge of the management of fresh water species in the Waikato River Catchment
• Provide opportunity to share stories on successes, challenges and solutions for enhancing the Waikato River Catchment
• Meet with others who undertake biodiversity work

Moira Cursey

Waikato Biodiversity Forum Co-ordinator
07 8465066      027 2223791
www.waikatobiodiversity.org.nz
www.facebook.com/WaikatoBiodiversityForum

Hamilton City Council is developing a strategic plan for the 16km stretch of the Waikato River within Hamilton City's boundaries. This important document will form the guiding document for Hamilton's engagement with the Waikato River and planning for development for the next 30 years.

To achieve this, Council is proposing the establishment of a Waikato River Leadership Group to lead its development. This group will consist of passionate people covering a broad range of special interest areas and expertise, as well as representatives from Council.

For more information on the Waikato River Leadership Group please download the draft Terms of Reference from www.hamilton.co.nz/waikatoriver.

Deadline: 19 April 2013.
Submit your CV and Expression of Interest to Strategy and Research Unit, Attn: Waikato River Leadership Group, Hamilton City Council, Private Bag 3010, Hamilton 3240 or email Raewyn.napier@hcc.govt.nz.

Reminder - come along in your lunch hour today (12.30 ish would be good) to the Environment Centre - down on the pavement - and show your love for DoC. We will be there to take your messages via postit notes and photos to national Forest and Bird  to be publicised and presented to the government.

Why??

Because DoC has had $54m cut from its funding over the past 4 years
It looks after a third of NZ's area, 33 marine reserves, and 6 marine mammal sanctuaries

Doc isessential to looking after our biodiversity and green image, which directly or indirectly employs thousands of New Zealanders.

and a lot of other reasons that you can find out about when you come along to 25 Ward St!! or look on the Forest and Bird website.