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  • Treescape Gives CUE Haven a New Look—11 January, 2013

    At CUE Haven we spend most of our time planting trees, so you might be surprised to hear that today four great guys from Treescape helped us cut down four trees. Yes.  Because we are turning CUE Haven into a native New Zealand forest, we have to be careful of non-native trees which might have…

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  • Conservation Volunteers–January 7-11, 2013

    The new year got off to a great start as a team of hard working volunteers braved heat and humidity to help us out with several important projects. The team was led by Bruce Eade, who had led one of the very first CVNZ teams to visit CUE Haven back in 2008!  The group consisted…

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  • Community Walking Track Day—9 December 2012

    A fantastic group of volunteers gave up a Sunday to come out and help us to finish off the gully walking track. In January and February 2012 we put in a 600 meter walking track along the gully stream and in May and July teams of volunteers spread metal on about two thirds of the track…

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  • Fishy Business At CUE Haven—28 November 2012

    From November 26-28, the Auckland Council Wai Care/Environmental Programmes Coordinators group held an annual training session for their staff. This year the retreat focussed on the south Kaipara Harbour area, where CUE Haven is located.  The workshops consisted of training meetings and field trips and on the morning of November 28 the group visited CUE…

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  • Visit by Unitec Ecology Students—30 October 2012

    Unitec, an Auckland-based institute of technology with a dual commitment to post-graduate and degree level study, has become a good friend of CUE Haven. For the third year in a row, Mel Galbraith, a Senior Lecturer in Ecology brought out a group of students for a field trip. Ecology students from Unitec are also involved…

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