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  • Westpac Customer Contact Centre Staff–6 September 2024

    Today our good friend from Westpac, Afi, brought out a small team of staff from the Westpac Customer Contact Center to help out with some spring maintenance.  The staff members are involved in a programme that gives them a chance to learn about all aspects of the banking business. The group arrived first thing in

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  • NIQ–5 September 2024

    NIQ, formerly known as Nielsen IQ is the world’s leading consumer intelligence company.  They work with businesses in gathering and analysing data to improve understanding of consumer behaviour.  Today six professionals from the Auckland office kicked off our spring maintenance work by tackling some unusual and challenging maintenance tasks. The group arrived first thing in

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  • Unitec Environmental GIS Students

    On 18 August, Unitec Associate Professor Dr Glen Aguilar once again brought a group of students pursuing a Bachelor of Applied Sciences–Biodiversity Management degree with the School of Environmental and Animal Sciences to do some field work for the Applied GIS paper. Also joining the Unitec group were students from NorthTec. The field trip exercises

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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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