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Duke of Edinburgh’s Hillary Award Residential—3-7 October 2016
This week we had another very successful Duke of Edinburgh’s Hillary Award gold residential at CUE Haven with a great group of young people. The team arrived on Monday morning and included Aimee, Ben, Gary, Jessie, Juancho, Rachel, Samantha, Shannon, and Wendy. Ben, who had been a participant in last year’s October residential was the…
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Forest and Bird Warkworth Branch—25 September 2016
The Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand is one of the oldest and most respected conservation organisations in NZ. The Society has over 70,000 members in fifty branches around the country and today our friends from the Warkworth Branch spent a day at CUE Haven helping us pot up seedlings. At this…
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Mental Health Awareness Week
The Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand is a charitable trust organised to help people, families, organisations and communities to improve and sustain mental health and reach full potential. A vision of the Foundation is to create a society where all people are able to achieve positive mental health and wellbeing. Much of the work…
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Visit By Unitec Ecology Students—19 August 2016
Unitec is an Auckland-based institute of technology with a dual commitment to post-graduate and degree level study as well as vocational education and training. Since 2010, our good friend Mel Galbraith, a Senior Lecturer in Ecology at Unitec, has brought his third year ecology students to CUE Haven for a field trip. The trip gives…
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Expect the Unexpected—14 August 2016
Just when we thought we were finished with the bulk of our pioneer planting work, nature decided to rearrange our plans. Last Wednesday, we had one of those 100 year storms. We got over 150 mm of rain in a 24 hour period and there was a lot of flooding and road closures. Because of…
