MEDIA RELEASE: The Department of Conservation (DOC) plans to go ahead with track building shortcuts that experts and locals say will increase pressure on kauri trees already at risk of kauri dieback, a deadly root infection. DOC is rolling out work in the upper North Island for 750kms of kauri forest tracks. The proposal in the Okura Forest Scenic Reserve, just south of the Whangaparaoa Peninsula,…
Author: Lezette Reid
Newsletter Winter 2015
Progress, scoping the forest, working with DOC, trapping, monthly catch stats, bird count.
Great Okura Knock Down of 2015
D-Day for the rats in Okura…”Bring out your dead”!! A fun day was had by all bringing their rats to the village hall for the weigh in!
Dr Mike Joy’s presentation at AGM
Dr Mike Joy, Senior Lecturer in Ecology & Environmental Science, Massey University, Palmerston North spoke about our bad water quality in New Zealand.
July 2015 AGM Report
FOOB 2015 AGM report by Lezette Reid. To this little part of our world where we are restoring biodiversity.
Okura Bush Autumn Newsletter 2015
Many thanks to Claire Taylor for this wonderful painting of rats sitting on a branch engaged in a serious workshop about rat traps!
Pest control report in Local Matters
A report on trapping activities by FOOB in the Okura Bush was published in Hibiscus Matters local newspaper.
Local Board funding for 2015 Festival
Thanks to Hibiscus and Bays local Board for giving us $1000 towards running the Okura Forest Festival 2015.