RRE collaborated with Ngāti Manuhiri (NMST), to provide a cultural induction for 57 community group members to gain knowledge, and understanding of cultural values and practices and pre-colonial history, and understand the space we are all working in. The event was well received and provides a stepping stone for environmental Read more…
A collaboration with Restore Rodney East and Warkworth Forest & Bird, brought Prof John Cockrem to present in Warkworth to an audience of 55 people. John began penguin field work more than 30 years ago with Adelie and emperor penguins in Antarctica. He presented his studies of the annual cycle, Read more…
The Restore Rodney East (RRE) AGM was held this month on September 13th. RRE was lucky to retain all the current committee members and elected officers, giving stability and continuity to the organisation. We were joined by Dean Baigent Mercer, Forest & Bird’s Northland Conservation Advocate, who was passionate in Read more…
Dean is Forest & Bird’s Northland Conservation Advocate and has been described as New Zealand’s dread-locked version of David Attenborough. Year 8 students at Mahurangi College had the great pleasure of spending time last week with Dean Baigent Mercer near the pontoon as part of the school’s living classroom. Dean Read more…
For most of you every week is conservation week! Today I attended a planting day in Puhoi. It was good to get my boots dirty and some plants in the ground. Super impressed with a group of young girls who had come all the way from the city as part Read more…
We attended the Ngāti Manuhiri Settlement Trust’s roadshow for the fight against the spread of Caulerpa Brachypus, an invasive seaweed. It was a great chance to get up to speed on the spread of Caulerpa, and speed is a key action for this fast-spreading invasive plant. Caulerpa grows and changes Read more…
Volunteer Day in Matakana today. The big hit was seeing the native fish up close! Thanks to The Forest Bridge Trust for organising this event.
Just over 300 juvenile wētāpunga were released on two islands in the Bay of Islands, where community conservation group Project Island Song has been working for almost 20 years to restore native flora and fauna. Chairman Tim Armitage and Facilitator Sarah Churchouse were lucky to be part of this amazing Read more…
This was a unique opportunity for those working hands-on in predator control, to gain insight into these predators, and to use this information to advance trapping skills in order to remove them from our ecosystem. Professor King is an international authority on the biology of mustelids and rodents, who generously Read more…
Facilitator Sarah Churchouse attended the Northland Kiwi Coast Hui today in Waipu. Good to see a few familiar faces from our area, and also network with some new ones. A beautiful pōwhiri welcomed everyone into the building, the focus being protection of kiwi, with guest speakers talking on Northland’s projects, Read more…