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Community Planting Day—23 June 2019
We finished up our 2019 planting season on a high note with an extra special planting day. Valentina and Ben have been CUE Haven supporters and today they brought a group of their friends out to help plant some trees. The very enthusiastic group arrived at around nine and included Ben, Brooklyn, Caroline, Emily, Gary,…
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SFS Centre for Rainforest Studies—12 June 2019
The School for Field Studies (SFS) is a US-based global organisation that provides students with overseas study opportunities in a variety of ecological settings. The SFS Centre for Rainforest Studies, based in Australia, features a programme of study that includes a visit to New Zealand where students can learn about New Zealand’s temperate rain forests.…
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Overseas Chinese Association–8 June 2019
Today our good friends from the NZ Chapter of the Overseas Chinese Association combined a day of planting and maintenance with their annual Dragon Boat Festival. The OCA have been coming to CUE Haven to plant and celebrate since 2014 and their visit has become one of the highlights of the CUE Haven calendar. We…
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Westlake Boys High School—4 & 5 June 2019
Westlake Boys High School on Auckland’s North Shore is one of New Zealand’s largest schools and for the past few years, Westlake Boys students have been visiting CUE Haven both to help out with our restoration project and to supplement their classroom work with field studies. Again this year, Year 11 geography students are studying…
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Fonterra—28 May 2019
Fonterra, one of the world’s largest dairy companies, is taking a very proactive approach to environmental remediation of the impact of dairying. They lead initiatives to fence wetlands, do riparian planting and improve farm environmental planning and practices. When CUE Haven was a dairy farm, it was part of the Fonterra co-op. Fonterra staff at…
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