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Kiwi Aversion Training for Dogs—14 September, 2014
Kiwi are New Zealand’s national bird and being flightless, are seriously endangered by introduced predators. Only five percent of kiwi chicks born in the wild survive because of predators and ninety-five percent of those killed are killed by either dogs or cats. In 2013 and 2014, our neighbours, Gill & Kevin Adshead released nearly forty…
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Unitec Ecology Students Visit CUE Haven and Mataia—15 August 2014
Every year since 2010, Mel Galbraith, senior lecturer in ecology at Unitec has brought out a group of final year ecology students to CUE Haven so that they can experience a restoration project in process. And since 2013, the field trip has included a visit to our neighbours at the Mataia Restoration Project so that…
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Green ‘S’ Force Planting Day—26 July 2014
Our 2014 planting season finished off today with a great effort by our friends from the Green ‘S’ Force. This year they planted even more trees than their amazing accomplishment last year. Today’s team included Aman, Bharpoor, Harinder, Jagdeep, Jagveer, Karamjeet, Karan, Lakhvinder, Meenu, Navneet, Nisha, Parminder, Prabhjot, Raj, Ranjit, Samandeep, Simar, Simerjeet, Suhas, Veerpal…
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Murrays Bay Intermediate School–24 July 2014
Today a group of twenty-six students from Murrays Bay Intermediate School in Auckland came out for a day of planting and learning. This is the fourth time sustainability teacher David Walker has brought out a group of students and it was great to see some familiar faces and meet some new students as well. Also…
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Duke of Edinburgh’s Hillary Award Residential—14-18 July 2014
This week we had another very successful Duke of Edinburgh’s Hillary Award gold residential at CUE Haven. The team arrived on Monday and included Alana, Caitlin, Cherry, Chrissy, Emma James, Jacqueline, Kalym, Mette, Praveen, Sean, Sylvia, Tony and Zoe. Zoe was the team leader. We had two milestones with this group—it was the largest team…
