Author: Lezette Reid

Merry Christmas & a Happy 2025 to you all

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…

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…

cat eating bird

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.

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:…

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