A report on FOOB’s opposition to DOC’s proposed use of Geoweb to repair the track is on page three of the June 1st Hibiscus Matters newspaper. Read the full article here: Conservationists clash over kauri dieback protection
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Stuff: Kauri dieback solution upsets residents
On Stuff today: Kauri dieback solution upsets residents An Auckland advocacy group is shocked by plans to lay plastic on a popular walkway. Friends of Okura Bush has been campaigning for four years for a boardwalk track but the Conservation Department (DOC) plans to install geoweb; a strong plastic filled with bark and covered with gravel. Co-ordinator Geoff Reid was…
Threatened kauri under attack from DOC shortcuts
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,…
SPRING/SUMMER NEWSLETTER 2016
Young leopard seals are said to travel north to New Zealand occasionally. New Zealand fur seals are now seen more often in the Hauraki Gulf and perhaps we will see both species more often in the future. For more on leopard seals click here. Progress DOC has now produced detailed plans for upgrading parts of the main walkway and have…
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!
Bush track format fails trees – North Shore Times
Native trees are “stressed and dying” along a public North Shore bush walk, according to a resident bush volunteer. Friends of Okura Bush co-ordinator Geoff Reid says the forest floor is suffering under a tightly packed stone chip walkway, which is part of the track linking Okura to Stillwater via bush.
Pest control report in Local Matters
A report on trapping activities by FOOB in the Okura Bush was published in Hibiscus Matters local newspaper.
The DOC reserve – Sunday Star Times
FOOB received a fantastic write-up in the “Backyard Battlers” section of the Sunday Star Times this weekend. There is some great aerial photography in the video here on Stuff: The DOC Reserve Excerpt from the article: Other local environmental groups are unhappy about the 150-house Weiti Bay development springing up on Okura Bush’s northern edge and the intensification of housing…
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