Conservation / July 2024
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Honouring the beauty and wisdom of trees
- Sustainability Trust Wellington
- Passionate about reuse and quality timber, Jo provides framing services with a difference. Read on to learn more about her journey with recycled timber and a recent purchase that will help her achieve her zero waste goals.
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Take action: Volunteering in conservation
- Zealandia
- Lynn Freeman has been a volunteer at Zealandia for many years and is our most recent recipient of our Faye Schaef Award. This award is given to a volunteer who exhibits the qualities and ...
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Zealandia, Lake Road, Highbury, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Last chance for Dawn Walks
- Zealandia
- Dawn at Zealandia is a very special time of day, which you can experience through a Dawn Walk. These walks include a 3-hour guided tour in the valley before opening hours, a light snack during and ...
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Zealandia, Lake Road, Highbury, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Why do people volunteer?
- Zealandia
- Zealandia Te Māra a Tāne relies heavily on our amazing community of volunteers. Our volunteers help us with a wide range of tasks and activities. They come from all walks of life and are passionate ...
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Zealandia, Lake Road, Highbury, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Rainy day magic
- Zealandia
- Thinking you won't see any birds if you come to Zealandia in the winter months? Well, think again! Birds' senses are generally well in tune with approaching weather changes, and many of the ...
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Zealandia, Lake Road, Highbury, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Te Māhanga boardwalk is open!
- Zealandia
- The new boardwalk down Te Māhanga track is now open! Thank you again for your patience as we carried out this important mahi. We’ve built this boardwalk to keep the pepeketua/Hamilton’s frogs safe ...
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Zealandia, Lake Road, Highbury, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Putting a price on precious native species
- Predator Free Wellington
- This article was originally written by our Board Chairperson Tim Pankhurst and published by The Post on 27 July 2024. See original article here. What price a tūī? A kākā? A kiwi? Ten bucks? A hundred? Or are they more likely priceless? In 2016, then-prime minister Sir John Key visited Zealandia to announce a…
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Zealandia, Lake Road, Highbury, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Some top trapping tips
- Predator Free Wellington
- Our team is currently in Phase 2 of our plan to remove rats, possums, weasels and stoats from Wellington. We’ve learned a lot and wanted to share some special tips to help out your backyard or community trapping. Keep it fresh … Would you want to eat dry or mouldy peanut butter? Neither would a rat! Keeping…
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A new technology trial and a new communications programme lead
- Predator Free Wellington
- New Communications Programme Lead David Klein got out into the field to help install some new technology to make Predator Free Wellington’s work faster and cheaper. It’s a drizzly winter morning in Wellington and I’m kitted out with a fleece, raincoat and overtrousers. While there’s plenty to learn in the…
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New technology boosting predator free fight
- Predator Free Wellington
- This article was originally written by our Board Chairperson Tim Pankhurst and published by The Post on 20 July 2024. See original article here. Every week a group of old geezers gather at a former bowling club greenkeeper’s shed in Hataitai. Here they saw and hammer and snip and laugh and yarn while they…
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Hataitai, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Closures July 2024
- Zealandia
- The sanctuary will be closed from 23-25 July for the felling of some large pine trees over Lake Road. There will be no access into the valley for anyone for the health and safety of our visitors, ...
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Sanctuary Closure 23-25th July
- Zealandia
- The sanctuary will be closed from 23-25 July for the felling of some large pine trees over Lake Road. There will be no access into the valley for anyone for the health and safety of our visitors, ...
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Governor-General turns rat-catcher
- Predator Free Wellington
- This article was originally written by our Board Chairperson Tim Pankhurst and published by The Post on 13 July 2024. See original article here. Governor-General Dame Cindy Kiro acts as King Charles III’s representative in the realm of New Zealand under a legal instrument termed the letters patent. That…
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Return of wildlife draws international plaudits
- Predator Free Wellington
- This article was originally written by our Board Chairperson Tim Pankhurst and published by The Post on 6 July 2024. See original article here. Wellington’s predator free movement is an economic driver for a city badly in need of a boost. Predator Free Wellington offers much more than eradicating introduced…
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Wall St Journal: Inside New Zealand’s Mission to Wipe Out Predators
- Predator Free Wellington
- This article was written by Mike Cherney for the Wall Street Journal and was published on 5 July 2024. Read the full article here. Armed with a .22-caliber rifle, a GPS tracker and a dog named Scmack, Jason Millichamp set off into the hills here with a license to kill. His mission: find and eliminate…
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Trees, tracks and a demographic shift!
- Manawa Karioi Ecological Restoration Project
- There were 5 Sundays this June, which along with some pretty good weather, allowed us to get a lot done.
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Te Ahi Ka - Loop Track, Island Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6023, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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July Recycling at Ngaio Union Church
- Ngaio Progressive Association
- This Saturday is first of the month – so its recycling time again, from 10am to 12 noon at Ngaio Union Church. Good news – we can recycle shaving products again – all brands of disposable shavers, including blades and … Continue reading →
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Ngaio, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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