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Copper skink Credit

BNZ Closed For Good

i 2nd September, 2015

Kia Ora to all awesome staff from BNZ closed for good team. While some of us have been overseas, Josh was keeping busy working with our BNZ team on last years BNZ site. LAst year we worked on our flax site down by Darlington Rd. Releasing grass and weeds around the base of the flaxes and plants planted previous year. The team also planted up the site that last years team cleared up and planted about a 80 wineberry, pigeonwood…

Volunteers planting in Maupuia reserve Credit

Making a difference

i 31st July, 2015

Kia Ora. We are in the middle of probably the most busy season of the year. The planting season. This year we have a huge numbers of plants to plant around the peninsula to help restore Te Korowai a Tāne-  the cloak of the forest god Tāne. Plants are donated from WCC and the Forest & Bird nursery.  We have several sites this year, but one of the main focus points is at Cenntenial park/ Mapuia Reserve and along the…

The silvereye – also known as the wax-eye, or sometimes white eye.

Miramar Bird Banding Session

i 31st March, 2015

Bird banding data are useful in both research and management projects. Individual identification of birds makes possible studies of dispersal, social structure, life-span, survival rate and population growth etc. On the weekend we had some bird banding people visiting the peninsula bush. In just a few hours we got 19 birds. Mostly silvereyes, but also some grey warblers and a fantail. Very exciting. Let us know if u see any banded birds around :D