Friends of Waiwhakareke Working Bee
9am - 12noon, Saturday 25 February 2012
Meet: Brymer Road entrance opposite Hamilton Zoo
Weeding around trees planted on Arbor Day. This is a really important working bee to save small plants from smothering by weeds.
Bring gumboots, gloves, weeding tools, morning tea.
Enquiries: Moira Cursey 07 846 5066
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Maui’s Dolphin Day
10am - 5pm 10 March 2012
Te Kopua Domain, Raglan
Current stage schedule and list of stallholders follows. If you would like to be a part of the day, contact Whaingaroa Environment Centre, Town Hall, Bow Street, Raglan 07 825 0480 or wenvc@kol.co.nz
STAGE
10am Welcome
10:10am Kindy Rock
10:50am Peggy Oki introducing...
11:00 am Dr. Liz Slooten – Maui’s and Hector’s dolphins
11:40am Raft Race
1:00pm Blue Stratos (Ashley Knox)
1:30pm Sustainable Coastlines – marine debris
1:40pm ASR – marine debris in Whaingaroa catchment and sea
1:50pm Project Jonah – what they do
2:00pm Antonio Te Maioha
2:20pm Department of Conservation
2:30pm Little Lapin
3:00pm Karin Bettley
3:40pm Marten ten Broek
4:20pm Peggy Oki introducing…
4:30pm Prizegiving with Dave Rastovich
5:00pm Screening of Minds in the Water (in Sustainable Coastlines container)
STALLS
Forest and Bird
Whiangaroa Environment Centre
ASR
Sustainable Coastlines education shipping container
Earthrace
A Rocha
Department of Conservation
Project Jonah
Raglan Community House
Let’s Face It – visual petition
Waitetuna Community Group (food fundraiser)
Raglan Kindergarten (food fundraiser)
Waikato Regional Council – Bruno David - unconfirmed
Fisheries Education Trailer – unconfirmed
Green Party – unconfirmed
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Ministry for the Environment's
Green Ribbon Awards
Nomination deadline 5pm Friday 23 March 2012
Presented by the Minister for the Environment to recognise outstanding contributions by individuals, organisations, businesses, and communities to protect and enhance NZ's environment.
Awards available in 12 categories - see www.mfe.govt.nz/green-ribbon for details of awards, and details for making nominations.
You can nominate yourself, your organisation, community group, service or product, and you can nominate someone else who you think deserves recognition (if you haven't time or enough information about someone else, you can email their details to green.ribbon@mfe.govt.nz and the Ministry will send them an invitiation to submit a nomination).
