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Conservation Volunteers—June 25-29, 2012
This year’s planting efforts got a big boost as a great group of Conservation Volunteers battled some of the worst winter weather we’ve seen. In spite of having to deal with rain, hail, thunder and wind on almost every day, the team still managed to plant almost 2,100 trees. The team was led by Ben…
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Contact Energy Volunteer Planting Day—June 27, 2012
For the second year in a row, we were very happy to have a great team of volunteers from the Auckland office of Contact Energy join us for a day of planting. Contact Energy, a generator and retailer of electricity, natural gas and LPG, is one of New Zealand’s largest public companies. The team arrived…
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International Student Volunteers—June 18-21, 2012
An enthusiastic group of International Student Volunteers spent Monday through Thursday with us and helped out with the CUE Haven planting efforts and some other challenging tasks. The ISV team was led by Chantal Whitby with the assistance of Dawn Gasparro of Conservation Volunteers NZ. The team consisted of Roy, Jolene, Ellen, Randi, and Steven…
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Conservation Volunteers—June 11-15, 2012
Our 2012 planting efforts moved ahead this week thanks to perfect weather and a great team from Conservation Volunteers NZ. The group included Matthias from Switzerland, Blair from Scotland, Tamanja and Stephanie from Belgium, Brigid from England and Anna, Verena, Andrea and Marius from Germany and was led by Dawn Gasparro of CVNZ. This was…
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International Student Volunteers—June 4-7
This week we had a fun and enthusiastic group from International Student Volunteers to help move along our 2012 planting efforts. The ISV team was led by Stephanie McLeod with the assistance of Dawn Gasparro of Conversation Volunteers NZ. The team was our first All-American team and consisted of Kelsey, Sara, Erika, Paul, Dan, Amanda…
