Blogs
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Unitec Ecology Students–8 August 2024
Ecology students participating in the Unitec Institute of Technology biodiversity restoration class have been visiting CUE Haven for the past several years in order to get a chance to do some first-hand observations of a restoration project in progress. Because we have been planting since 2008, they can readily see different stages in the regeneration
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Kiwi Avoidance Training–7 July 2024
Kiwi are New Zealand’s national bird and being flightless, are seriously endangered by introduced predators. In 2013 and 2014, our neighbours, Gill & Kevin Adshead released nearly forty Northland Brown kiwi on their property – Mataia. The kiwi population has grown over the years and expanded beyond Mataia. The growing kiwi populations means that dogs
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ASB Technology Architecture Group–21 June 2024
For the first time, some staff members from ASB’s Technology Architecture team had their volunteer day at CUE Haven and helped us with some important planting work. The team arrived first thing in the morning and included Charlotte, Christie, Daniel, Henk, Manuela, Marvin, Mike, Ping, Shane and Steven. Everyone was new to CUE Haven so
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Sri Sathya Sai International Organisation of New Zealand–9 June 2024
The Sri Sathya Sai Group is a spiritual organisation whose members make a commitment to community service The group have made many contributions to the CUE Haven restoration project over the years—assisting with planting, painting the nursery and walking track maintenance. Today seventeen members gave up their Sunday morning to help us with some restoration
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Westpac–6 June 2024
Teams from Westpac bank have been volunteering at CUE Haven for several years and today we were very happy to have a combined group from Enterprise Services, Learning Talent & Culture and the Analytics & Insights departments out to help us with plant trees. The group arrived first thing in the morning and included staff
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