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Conservation Volunteer Activities NelsonAugust - September / Tasman 2021 Top of the South Welcome to the August - September 2021 conservation volunteer activities newsletter for the top of the South Island. We hope you enjoy seeing all the great conservation work going on around your community and are inspired to participate and support these activities Conservation Week 2021 to grow conservation. When Papatūānuku thrives, we all thrive. This can be felt when we take There is something for everyone from time for ourselves in the outdoors - we give our minds a break and feel skilled, high fitness activities to social connected to nature. It can be as simple as stopping to listen to birdsong or taking a walk with the whānau. You could even plant a native tree in and educational events, to days you can your backyard or join a community event. bring the whole family. Find out what’s happening for Conservation Week in the top of the South. See below for a variety of events to get involved in. DOC Volunteer Coordinator Location: Nationwide Sally Leggett Contact: Sally Leggett Phone: 027 2035235 [email protected] Email: [email protected] Date: 4 Sep 21 - 12 Sep 21 Phone: +64 027 203 5235 Getting Kids into Nature Nature Photography Workshop Lake Rotoiti Village Trapping Keen to get the family out into nature? To celebrate Conservation Week, DOC To celebrate conservation week, the Friends Come and hear DOC staff talk about family Waitohi Picton is hosting a nature of Rotoiti in partnership with DOC, invite you friendly walks in the area, and where the photography workshop at Pelorus Bridge to join them at a village trapping activity. easily accessible huts are for an overnight Scenic Reserve. DOC Ranger Miranda is an Meet at the Rotoiti/Nelson Lakes Visitor stay. Learn how to get the kids out into a hut, experienced nature photographer and invites Centre, St Arnaud at 9.30am for a briefing. what to expect and what to take. Find out you for a morning out in one of Marlborough’s Following the activity, we will meet at the how your kids can become Kiwi Guardians outstanding landscapes. The workshop is Blechynden Shelter at Kerr Bay at 11.30am and earn medals by exploring Kiwi Guardian suitable for the whole family, no matter your for a morning tea. trails in the area, or by actions they can do in skill level or camera equipment (phone Families are welcome and no experience is their backyard. See full listing below for photography is welcome). See full listing required. See full listing below for more dates/ times and locations. below for more info and how to register. information. Location: Nelson, Richmond and Motueka Location: Pelorus Bridge Location: St Arnaud Date: 4 Sep 21 - 12 Sep 21 Time: Various dates Date: 4 September Date: 11 September Time: 9.30am to 12pm and times Contact: Sally Leggett Contact: Miranda van der Linde Contact: Pip Berkett Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] www.doc.govt.nz/news/newsletters/conservation-volunteer-events/ ... to subscribe to this newsletter Top of the South August - September 2021 August, 2021 Brook Waimārama Sanctuary Since completion of the fence at the Brook Waimarama Sanctuary, numbers of native birds Aug - Ongoing and other wildlife have increased markedly, both Contact: Sabrina Malcolm inside the fence and in surrounding areas. The next Email: See text stage includes re-introduction of rare species www.brooksanctuary.org including kiwi, kaka, kakariki, tuatara and Time: Various saddlebacks - earlier this year we introduced forty saddlebacks into the Sanctuary. It's an exciting time for the Sanctuary. We’re on the lookout for volunteers to join the dedicated people who maintain the Sanctuary. Volunteer roles include track maintenance, fence checking & maintenance, Location: Nelson fundraising and events, invasive weed control, bird monitoring, and assets maintenance. For more info email: [email protected] Otuwhero Working Bees The Otuwhero Trust carry out restoration work in the beautiful Otuwhero wetland near Marahau. Aug - Ongoing The Trust holds working bees on site on Friday Contact: Terry Stanbridge afternoons from 1pm to 4pm in the winter months, Email: [email protected] work involves planting and the maintenance of Phone: 03 527 8656 plantings. Time: 1pm to 4pm on Friday’s Please contact Terry Stanbridge if you would like to spend time in this lovely piece of wetland. The Otuwhero Wetland is a stronghold for banded rail and fernbird, it also hosts an important whitebait spawning area and has a number of threatened Location: Marahau, Tasman species of plants. Marsden Valley Trapping Marsden Valley Trappers in Marsden Valley Stoke Nelson are on the look out for more trappers. Aug - Ongoing If you are keen on walking the hills and are keen on Contact: Kathryn Richards trapping get in touch. Email: [email protected] No experience needed we can train you up. Phone: 027 3515428 Contact Kathryn at [email protected] or drop me a text on 0273515428 We are trapping in Marsden Valley with around 800 traps and 15 volunteers. We aim to lower the numbers of predators in the Marsden Valley to see an increase in bird life. Be Location: Marsden Valley, Stoke, Nelson part of the community effort to make NZ predator free. Meet like-minded people and learn new skills. If you are a group or individual working to improve Nelson City Council Environmental Grants Scheme the health of our environment, you may be eligible 10 Aug 21 - 31 Aug 21 for an Environmental Grant. Contact: Nelson City Council The Environmental Grants Scheme provides www.nelson.govt.nz funding to support projects that improve the health of Nelson’s natural environment. Funding of up to $20,000 is available per project in any one year. There are two annual funding rounds for the 2021 -2022 financial year, in August 2021 and February 2022. Applications are now open for the August funding round and close on Tuesday 31 August 2021. For more info see http://www.nelson.govt. Location: Nelson nz/environment/funding-for-environmental- programmes/environmental-grants-scheme/ www.doc.govt.nz/news/newsletters/conservation-volunteer-events/ ... to subscribe to this newsletter Top of the South August - September 2021 Trappers needed in Appleby, Tasman Under the umbrella of Forest and Bird we are undertaking an ecological restoration of a 6 ha Aug - Ongoing property at Appleby in the Tasman District. Contact: Ian Price As part of the ecological restoration we are Email: [email protected] undertaking an intensive trapping program which www.forestandbird.org.nz we will look to expand as the ecological restoration expands. We are presently looking for trappers to manage a midweek and weekend line check Full training will be given, please contact Ian Price for more information. Photo: Geoff Reid Location: Appleby, Tasman Motueka Community Nursery This social morning activity will satisfy and inspire you, as you nuture and raise native plants to be Aug - Ongoing planted by school children and community projects Contact: Helen Lindsay throughout the region. Email: [email protected] Help restore this regions biodiversity values, www.doc.govt.nz ecosystems and wildlife habitat. Time: 9am to 12pm Volunteers get together every Monday from 9am to 12pm at the nursery which is located at the DOC Motueka Office. To find out more, contact Helen Lindsay. Location: DOC Motueka Office The Kotahitanga mō te Taiao Alliance (“collective Logistical Support Volunteer Needed action for our nature”) is looking for logistical Aug - Ongoing support for its meetings, organising venues, Contact: Erik van Eyndhoven catering, and recording the minutes. Email: [email protected] Comprising of the West Coast Regional Council, www.nature.org Nelson City Council, Buller, Tasman, and Time: Various Marlborough District Council’s as well as 8 iwi across the region, namely Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Waewae, Ngāti Apa ki te Rā Tō Trust, Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Kuia Trust, Ngāti Tama ki Te Waipounamu Trust, Te Atiawa o Te Waka-a-Māui Trust, Te Pātaka a Ngāti Kōata Trust, Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Location: Top of the South Island Rārua and Rangitāne o Wairau Settlement Trust and Department of Conservation, the Alliance focus is achieving conservation outcomes at scale. For further interest contact Erik van Eyndhoven. Come and join us at a community planting day on Battle for the Banded Rail - planting days the Waimea Inlet. 15 Aug 21 - 12 Sep 21 · Sunday 15 August: Rabbit Island South Coast. Contact: Kathryn Brownlie · Sunday 22 August: Reservoir Creek Embayment. Email: [email protected] · Saturday 28 August: Moreland Place Reserve, Phone: 03 544 4537 Mapua. Park on Moreland Place. www.tet.org.nz · Sunday 29 August: Rabbit Island South Coast. Time: 9am to 1pm · Sunday 5 September: Greenslade Park, Rough Island. · Sunday 12 September: Rabbit Island South Coast Bring gloves, spade and drinking water. Wear solid Location: Waimea Estuary, Tasman footwear and clothes suitable for the weather conditions. Morning tea will be provided. For more information email or phone Kathryn. www.doc.govt.nz/news/newsletters/conservation-volunteer-events/ ... to subscribe to this newsletter Top of the South August - September 2021 Please join Forest & Bird for our annual planting Annual Ronga Reserve Planting Day day of 1000 trees at the Ronga Reserve, one of 21 Aug 21 Marlborough's remnant forest gems with towering Contact: Debs Martin totara and matai. Planting and ongoing forest Email: [email protected] restoration has been occurring at the site for nearly www.forestandbird.org.nz 10 years. This year's planting will be in association Time: 10am with Nelson Tasman Weedbusters, DOC, and is part of the wider Te Hoiere catchment plan! Wear solid footwear and appropriate clothing for the day, and bring shovel, gloves and any other favourite planting tools you may have.
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