Events

Kia ora koutou Ocean Lovers and Seaweek Supporters,

Ready, Set, GO! Mark your calendars because Seaweek is happening from Saturday 29th February to Sunday 8th March 2020! We have some announcements to share with everyone, the first one being this year’s theme:

Connecting With Our Seas
Ko au te moana, ko te moana ko au - I am the sea, the sea is me

This sentiment highlights the diverse connections and interactions we have with the sea which makes our lives so intertwined with the health of our ocean environment.

Go to the website or Facebook to keep an eye on how this week is going to shape up.

On Sunday 8 December Forest and Bird Tauranga will host a dune restoration field trip

Learn about Protecting our Dunes

With Greg Jenks (MNZM), a leading NZ expert on dune systems and restoration techniques. See what a successful restoration looks like!

Meet outside the Papamoa Surf Lifesaving Club, Papamoa Domain at 10am

We will also be travelling to Mt Maunganui (own car). Finish time approximately 12:30pm.

Please book with Kate: Enable JavaScript to view protected content. or 021 657344

If you want to spread this event information, here is a PDF.

It’s Conservation Week and NATURE NEEDS US!

Back by popular demand is this free introduction to predator monitoring and trapping! With the support of the Summit Road Society we will be looking at the how to’s and why’s of predator control. There is something for beginners right through to the more experienced trappers. Learn how to start up your own group or come and join one of the teams already in action – or even just try it out in your backyard!

This is a FAMILY FRIENDLY event and there will be activities and talks for the children to keep them entertained and learning about what to find in their own garden.

• Learn about monitoring techniques – make sure your trapping the right thing and that you’re making a difference
• Learn how to use – DOC 200’s, Trapinators, Victor traps and Good Nature A12’s and A24’s.
• Learn about why we are doing this in the first place. We can all make a difference for our native species if we all do this together!

Where: Mt Pleasant Community Centre, 3 McCormacks Bay Rd, Christchurch

Date: Saturday 14 September

Time: 2pm to 4pm

Refreshments provided.

Please register for free (to help with catering) at: https://www.eventfinda.co.nz/2019/trapping-and-monitoring-extravaganza/christchurch

A free talk, entitiled Our land in a changing climate: impacts and implications, will be held on Wednesday 25 September at 5:30pm at Lincoln University. The speaker will be James Renwick, who is Professor of Physical Geography at Victoria University, specialising in large-scale climate variations. He was awarded the 2018 New Zealand Prime Minister’s Science Prize for Communication.

Land is at the heart of debates about climate change. How we use land affects our climate, but as the climate changes so too will the land and the biological and social systems it supports.

In a week of action on climate change, and following the release of the IPCC report on Climate and Land, NZ’s leading climate researchers explore the relationship between land and climate, and the challenges and potential it presents for our urgent need to respond to climate change.

Go here for (free) tickets

Join the Hauraki Gulf Forum on Tuesday 27 August 2019 at Auckland’s War Memorial Museum / Tāmaki Paenga Hira to take forward the Hauraki Gulf Forum’s recently announced recommendations for the Marine Park:

● That at least 20% of the waters be protected; and
● That 1000sqkm of shellfish-beds and reefs be restored.

From late morning into the early evening, the Forum’s flagship public annual event will feature headline expert speakers, panel debates, facilitated breakout sessions, the annual Holdaway awards, and a genuine participatory process designed to bring forth the best ideas from all participants and ensure that all voices are heard. Download the programme.

Buy your tickets here:

https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/visit/whats-on/series/hauraki-gulf-marine-park-seminar-2019