Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from the FOOB team. We’ve made good progress in protecting our wildlife with many hours gone into freeing our native plants from invasive species and helping to keep the animal pest numbers down, amongst other things. A huge Thank You to our committee and committed volunteers. It has…
Author: Lezette Reid
Planting Days
Come along for a fun day and make a difference. Sunday 7th July – meet at 1A Duck Creek Rd, Stillwater. Sunday 14th July – Deborah Reserve, Okura. A4 Planting Days – FOOB
Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year
Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year to all our Volunteers and Supporters Here is a special picture of one of the 4 dotteral chicks at the Weiti River mouth. Thank you to all of our volunteers and supporters, without you the incredible work that is being done couldn’t happen. Special thanks to Jo Crawford for tirelessly heading the team…
Raffle supporting FOOB
Want to cook smarter, not harder? Want to be a part of protecting rare coastal old-growth forest? Enter in the Friends of Okura Bush raffle to secure your chance to win a Thermomix! These cooking appliances give you freedom in the kitchen using step-by-step instructions to chop, blend, whip, weigh, mill, knead, mince, sear your way to becoming a kitchen…
Trapping Cats article by Pat Baskett
FIRST PUBLISHED at Newsroom on FEB 2, 2023 COMMENT by Pat Baskett, an Auckland writer and climate activist. We must protect what the cats drag in ‘Where once the Karepiro chenier hosted dotterel and oystercatcher nests there could soon be sandcastles, and how many cats?’ Pat Baskett looks at our ongoing contribution to the Sixth Extinction.
Okura Forest Festival 18th Feb 23
We’re really excited for this years line up of bands, speakers, workshops, delicious food & stalls. We’re on the countdown. It’s going to be a blast. Hope you can make it. Buy your tickets here. Click here to volunteer.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
Wishing all our FOOB supporters a Merry Christmas & a New Year filled with Happiness, Peace and Love. Thank you for your generous support, because of you, we are able to do our restoration work in this beautiful area. Okura Bush & Estuary
Biodiversity Restoration Workshop in Stillwater
Come along and join the community for a couple of hours of learning about how to best control some serious invasive plants that are threatening the remnant forests of Auckland. We will be controlling invasive vines, creepers and serious pest trees to allow the natives to regenerate back into coastal kauri/puriri forest. Where: Bus Stop on Duck Creek Road Parking:…
AGM 14th August 3pm Speaker: Prof Simon Thrush
Free refreshments.
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