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Green ‘S’ Force–9 November 2013
The New Zealand branch of the Shah Satnam Ji Green “S” Welfare Force made a major contribution to CUE Haven and thanks to all their efforts we exceeded our planting goal this year. We have become good friends with the group and today some of them came out to help work on a boardwalk walking…
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Murrays Bay Intermediate School—5 November 2013
Murrays Bay Intermediate School is a New Zealand Enviroschool located on Auckland’s North Shore. In June of this year, sustainability teacher David Walker brought out a group of students to do some planting and learning activities and today another group of twenty-eight Murrays Bay students came out with David along with student teacher Laura Griffin,…
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Unitec Ecology Students Visit CUE Haven and Mataia—1 November 2013
For the past three years, Mel Galbraith, senior lecturer at Unitec, has brought a class of ecology students out to CUE Haven for a field trip. Two previous students have also done a portion of the practicum field work at CUE Haven. The objective of the visit is to give the students a first-hand look…
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Concept Designs by Unitec Landscape Architecture Students—30 October 2013
On 1 October, a group of Unitec Landscape Architecture students visited CUE Haven to learn about the project and our plans for the future and to identify areas where landscape architecture could assist with the project and enhance visitor experience. Since then, under the direction of Ian Henderson, Program Director, Landscape Design, the students have…
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Bird Count—27 October 2013
One of the objectives of our forest restoration project is to re-create a habitat for native New Zealand birds. When CUE Haven was a farm, there was limited vegetation and most of the bird life was limited to species that lived in open pastures and scrub land. By connecting up the bush remnants on the…
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